The Citeseer Scientific Digital Library contains downloads for many excellent papers:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/

[ACM] provides some free papers, but IIRC to view many of them you must be a member:
http://www.acm.org/

From RFCs (for Internet protocols) to [USENET] newsgroup FAQs:
http://www.faqs.org/

For RFCs specifically:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/

[ARPANET] papers, which are useful if you want to know about computing history (especially the Internet):
http://www.archive.org/texts/arpanet.php

[USENIX] has many research papers, and I believe most of them are free to view:
http://www.usenix.org/

'''arXiv''' (http://www.arxiv.org/), formerly known as xxx.lanl.gov, is a huge preprint archive. It started as a physics preprint archive, but it now covers also mathematics and computer science.

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[ro]  If you know the title of the paper you're looking for, then enter it into google with '+ pdf'.
If it's at all popular, it's out there. 

[VL] It will also be on the internet if the author is computer savy enough and interested in 'publishing' it, and yes I use Google. If you don't know the name of the paper, go to a university library site, they tend to have subscriptions to abstract databases and such that are free to search.





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