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by queuebert 821 days ago
Pro tip: If you are near a university, the free public wifi may give you access to its journal subscriptions.
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Where have you seen this?

Every one I've seen requires login, and usually university membership for the good stuff.

Back in the day, when MIT still owned 18.0.0.0/8, at least one journal gave blanket access to users coming from anywhere in that netblock. And there were ways to use it even if you weren’t officially affiliated as a student/faculty. Unfortunately Aaron Swartz did not use an untraceable method of access.