Therefore, databases are password protected. Your access is your tuition. There is an exception to every rule. Likewise, at the physical library of a state university, supported by tax revenue, you can access databases you could not access from your computer. This is true for private colleges, too, as a matter of traditional library service.
Access is an ethic of libraries.
All articles exist in full-text somewhere on a computer and all I have to do is figure out the right button to push to print it out. This is one of the great modern myths, and all it takes is for a student to find the full-text of one article online to be convinced ever after that all articles are available online. Traditional print sources, such as scholarly journals, which have been converted into an online format, are governed by copyright law. These are leased by libraries. There is a right button on the computer and if I push it I can print out the full-text of an article.