Research Papers are already payed for
I spent almost ten years in the academia and I am very familiar with the problem. I am interested in a research paper but it’s behind a paywall. The institute I was working for subscribed to many publishers and associations, including ACM and IEEE. So, as long as I was in the office I could download papers. Access to publications was never a problem to me, until a struggling student asked me a copy of a paper which I co-authored.