Non-reviewed articles can also be reprinted for the benefit of researchers and the lay public alike. One of the greatest challenges to modern Shroud research is finding and accessing previously published work. Even with access to a sophisticated research library, many references are very hard to find. Finally, an easily accessible, centrally located bibliography is available to everyone. Along these same lines, even when a reference is determined, it is often impossible to find the actual paper or journal.
Many important references are out of print and more than twenty years old.
Over the last two years, rights have been obtained to reprint a number of these on the website and more are being added constantly 9 . This will be continued and in time, the website could become the central repository and primary resource of Shroud data for sindonologists worldwide. Without question, the Shroud of Turin stimulates heated debates. These often take the form of personal correspondence between individual researchers. The website has already been host to a number of such debates through the good graces of the researchers who have made their correspondence available for publication 10 .