Q. I am trying to access academic articles but keep getting prompted to pay when I try to open the full text.

If you try to access articles from academic journals through common search engines like Google, you will typically be prompted to pay for each article.  However, if you are enrolled in a college, your school will have databases available through its library through which you can freely access articles.  If you are a student at COM and find an article outside our academic databases (ex. through Google Scholar) that you want to read, try entering the databases through the school and looking for the article there.  If the college does not have it, we can attempt to acquire it through another library through Interlibrary Loan.  You can request an article through the form that is linked below.