If you were looking for articles in ACM or IEEE's digital libraries you could maybe direct-message a sympathetic LessWronger who pays for subscriptions and is willing to slightly bend copyright law and send you a copy. There's bound to be at least one.
I second the recommendation for Google Scholar, it indexes multiple versions of each paper and these often include freely available PDFs.
So I'm all geared up and ready to go trawl through some academic journals so I can figure out how to tackle a problem or two, and I've realized I completely forgot how to go about it. Not going to a university with paid subscriptions to JSTOR, etc. doesn't help either. So where exactly does one go to access such journals? Is there a cheap way to do this? Thanks.