I'm not really sure I understand their argument for restricting access. I'm not into the academic environment (and this might be one of the reasons) but this at

I'm not really sure I understand their argument for restricting access. I'm not into the academic environment (and this might be one of the reasons) but this at first looked something targeted at a wider audience than "scholars". Also, their quote mentions copyrighted work. A) is this material copyrighted? B) would be legal to open access - with passwords - to a "organized database of copyrighted material"?