To access library databases off-campus, log in with your campus credentials; the same username and password combination used to access your student accounts.
For scholarly sources on general topics, search in a database related to your topic.
Most research papers require the use of scholarly (academic) journal articles.
A scholarly journal article:
Magazines, newspapers, and reference-type websites such as Wikipedia are not considered scholarly.
Most library databases include a search feature to limit results to "Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed" articles.