5.Educate Yourself with Google Scholar

Perhaps the least known and used service on this list, Google Scholar serves a great function any researcher should know about. This sub-division of Google's search allows you find scientific articles, academic papers, and legal documents. In a sense, it's what the internet was originally meant to be. Scholar also allows you to drill down into local legal documents, as well. If you have a need to find information about decisions your local courts have made, you can specify which courts you want to hear from. While you won't be able to get down to city municipals, each state's court of appeals and supreme court are present, as well as circuit courts. Most of us won't have a ton of use for that, but when you have that one legal issue (or if you're a lawyer), you'll be glad you have it.