This research is designed to explore what barriers online library users encounter when attempting to access full-text scholarly articles remotely via proxy server and what strategies are used to overcome barriers to gain access to the full-text articles. The intent of this research is to fill a research gap that exists in merging identification of barriers with the types of access strategies that are used to overcome them. For this research, a group of 15 students from a large Midwestern university who use the library remotely were interviewed using an open-ended online survey and then completed a research log during a live online library research session. The open coding technique was used to categorize the barriers and subsequent strategies that were reported by participants. This study found that there are two types of barriers, information search related barriers and access barriers with a variety of access strategies online library users employ to overcome them. The study attempts to close the gap in the current Library and Information Science (LIS) literature by identifying barriers experienced by online users and linking them to specific strategies that are used to overcome them. This study also has practical implications for the improvement of library systems and services as well as information literacy instruction.