For most Journal Papers in Engineering you have to pay! However, if there are things you need, please let me know and I will try to get them through my colleagues.
For most Journal Papers in Engineering you have to pay! However, if there are things you need, please let me know and I will try to get them through my colleagues.
ASCE produces some of the top journals in the world and charges $35 per paper! There are others as Maria Bettencourt Pires suggested that you can access for free. The problem is that open access means in some cases the journals are subsided and in other cases the author has to pay to get the work published. This means the quality may not always meet expectations.
you can only access the articles that are open access. Any other way besides subscription and open access is illegal and I wouldn't recommend those ways
My colleagues: how can I access research papers for free?
Free stuff might not meet specific needs. If you can access to your university's e-journals, that will be good. Some free research papers can be obtained from the following manners:
Google Scholar - but might not be the latest.
Journals that provide sampled articles that are free to access or need to register first with your user profile.
Explore RG, Academia, Mendeley etc. & ask the the members / authors for a free copy of the paper.