Contextualizing your research topic in the wider field can help make your literature search more efficient. 

Is your topic well established in your field, or quite specialized?

Try a discipline specific database, such as arXiv.org, Project Euclid, or MathSciNet. 

Is your topic relatively new or interdisciplinary?

Stick to a multidisciplinary database.

Keep up to date in a relaxed way:

• Quanta Mathematics
• Math in the Media - a publication of the American Mathematical Society

For access to e-books, online journals, databases: 

• Use your Cruz ID when prompted
  • You can login from the Access guide
• Use the Nomad extension for quick links to subscription-based full text.