Editorial, Forum and Book Review

H . J. Caulfield

doi:10.1117/12.7972681

1 April 1981 Editorial, Forum and Book Review

H . J. Caulfield

Author Affiliations +

Optical Engineering, Vol. 20, Issue 2, 202329 (April 1981). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7972681

Abstract

In keeping with my desire to make editorial decisions openly and to seek reader response to those decisions, I want to announce a policy on the citation of military classified information in Optical Engineering. The problem, is a vexing one. If the purpose of a paper is to convey the maximum amount of information about a topic, should it trouble your editor that otherwise-useful references are inaccessible to some of the readers? Should he deliber-ately suppress the information that related material is available because some of the readers cannot use that material? Should the editor ban references to an obscure Dutch journal (for example) because some of the readers cannot use that material? Yet, there is something distasteful about citing classified material. Does it make Optical Engineering American and not international? Could it become a Department of Defense outlet for unclassified information? Would it be elitist?

Citation Download Citation

H . J. Caulfield "Editorial, Forum and Book Review," Optical Engineering 20(2), 202329 (1 April 1981). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7972681

Published: 1 April 1981

Access the abstract

JOURNAL ARTICLE
6 PAGES

DOWNLOAD PAPER SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

GET CITATION

RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

Get copyright permission Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace

KEYWORDS

Optical engineering

Defense and security

Keywords/Phrases

Search In:

Publication Years