Beyond the pay-wall (news articles)

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You know how sometimes you try to read an article on a mainstream website, but then it's limited to paid-subscribers? It sucks, but there is one way that's able to by-pass this, and could be useful for your research.

It may not work on all websites, but in my experience, it works with WSJ, Times, etc. And no, I don't feel terribly bad about it
I use archive.is and copy paste the article I want to read. This does two things:
1. It archives the page for future viewing (in case the page/article is taken down
2. By saving the whole page, it actually gives you access to the whole article:cool:

As an example, here's an article about how mushrooms can have massive impacts on our lives. And here's the result of archiving it.
 
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