Google Scholar Is Your Friend
In addition to research databases and journal archives, I use Google Scholar quite a bit. One of the things I really like about Google Scholar is the ability of the service to dig up publications that are "floating around". Sometimes, when an article or manuscript is really hard to come by - maybe because it has not been officially digitized, or maybe because the local university library just does not subscribe to the publication that published the article - then Google Scholar is able to find is some version of the article. A big time saver, because I would otherwise have to request a hard copy of the work at the university library and wait for it to arrive.
I recently discovered a feature, which further improves the usefulness of Google Scholar, namely the ability to import citations directly from Google Scholar into my citation management software.
This feature surely beats entering citations manually, but it's also faster than logging on to a research database, finding the publication, publication volume and issue, and finally the publication itself, which usually the place from where a citation can be exported.
The citation import feature needs to be enabled in the Google Scholar preferences. The preferences are accessed from the link provided just next to the search field. 
On the preferences page, locate the 'Bibliography Manager' section, enable links to citation imports and choose a suitable import format.
After saving preferences, Google Scholar search results now include an option to import citation:
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