Academics, I beg you. Please put copies of your published papers on your website, arxiv, whatever. Not only because it's great for the broader world beyond academia (who can't get behind paywalls at all) but it just took me 15 minutes to try to figure out how to log in to some particular database to get a copy of a paper. I don't even like the 3 minutes it takes to log into the ACM DL versus copying a title into google. Follow copyright rules but you can almost always post SOMETHING somewhere.
@cfiesler I had to write two papers for college and had a difficult time trying to get sources for either of them. Every single paper was locked behind paywalls. I'm a student, I'm not made of money.
@lowresgamr This probably won’t help you now :( but while you’re in college you should never pay for papers! School librarians can get anything for you.
@cfiesler when using the school internet connection, we were supposed to be able to access academic papers, not all of them, many still didn't recognize the school
@lowresgamr Librarians can get papers for you through inter library loan even if that library doesn’t have access to them!