Hello Nexians!
I know a link which is from one forum. It's a hub for fulltext acces, just put the link from abstract and play, the most journal have acces, but some journal didn't work. http://sci-hub.org/
If you need fulltext to journals where the link didn't work PM and I will send fulltext, or register to molbiol.ru/forums and go to fulltext where you cand ask for you article.
good reading

Is this the same thing as Google Scholar?

Not realy. It's site hub, you have acces to fulltext in this site from other people who have acces to fulltext and link will send you fulltext, books from diferent type of journals(e.g.Springerlink, Sciencedirect and other)

Whatever search term I use it redirects me to a chinese site asking for hundreds of dollars.

This one is russian it wiil take some problem to register and I don't know if is english friendly. If you need articles where in the first site didn;t work leave a link and I will try to get it

Try to click in the midle of the page above play button and above "URL статьи или журнала, или DOI, или PMID, или строка для поиска" ans paste the abstract link and press play after this will reload page where you can get pdf! It works