If you're looking for academic journals, but you don't want to use Gale, try
scholar.google.com
The first three minutes of the following video offer a very quick, quite useful introduction to Google Scholar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3NtCkSIwcY
Once you've found an article, you might want some help reading it. Here is a video that offers a useful strategy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKxm2HF_-k0
Here are two websites that address the same issue:
https://writingcenter.gmu.edu/guides/strategies-for-reading-academic-articles
https://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/ReadArticle.html
When you are using the general web, be sure to assess the credibility of your sources. Once you've done that, however, be sure to assess the sophistication of your sources as well. Ask yourself who the audience for this website might be. Assess the level of diction and the use of citation. Basically, does this website sound like the texts we've been reading?
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