Which is why I have never paid for an academic article from a publisher. I have been e-mailing authors directly for access to the article and have been success

Which is why I have never paid for an academic article from a publisher. I have been e-mailing authors directly for access to the article and have been successful most of the time. Maybe once or twice, the e-mails go unanswered. In one case, the primary author had died (a subsequent search linked a news article showing a skiing accident). In another case, the author had simply moved to a different university thus the e-mail in the paper was outdated.