You may find you can get membership of either a university you have graduated from, or a local university library. That may not get you access to e-journals, though (certainly not at Leicester). It might also be worth looking into signing up for an OU course - there are 10 credit courses for about £200 which would get you access to the OU's (very extensive) digital library for ten weeks. That might be cheaper than finding a way to subscribe to journals as a private individual.
It won't at almost all UK unis because the license agreement with the journal publishers explicity state only current staff and students, not alumni.
Some uni libs, albeit very few although the OU is one of them, have walk-in access to online journals but that's not much help if you want to avoid going to the library in the first place.
It very much depends on the journal. Many will have personal subscription models wich will be print and e access or e-access only but for that you'll need to go through to the journal homepage and look at the subscription info. Even for personal subs you'll be looking at well into three figures for many journals.
Athens is an authenication scheme. It started in UK HE but actually has spread beyond both the UK and HE (for example the MHS use Athens to authenicate their numerous staff on their massive online resources).
Use cites where either the author has the paper on their website or they put it in the arXiv. Journal publication is a cesspit, and at least for me, if you cite a journal I can't read, you're not citing further research, you're appealing to authority, which is not a strong argument to me.
I work for an institution that has been an enthusiastic cheerleader for open access publishing, but even so I feel that need to tell you to "get real".
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Some uni libs, albeit very few although the OU is one of them, have walk-in access to online journals but that's not much help if you want to avoid going to the library in the first place.
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