"Whether one figures by acquisition rate, by holding size, or by contributors,
the classified universe is, as best I can estimate, on the order of five to ten
times larger than the open literature that finds its way to our libraries. Our
commonsense picture may well be far too sanguine, even inverted. The
closed world is not a small strongbox in the corner of our collective house
of codified and stored knowledge. It is we in the openworld—we whostudy
the world lodged in our libraries, from aardvarks to zymurgy, we who are
living in a modest information booth facing outwards, our unseeing backs
to a vast and classified empire we barely know."- Dr. Peter Galison 2004
the classified universe is, as best I can estimate, on the order of five to ten
times larger than the open literature that finds its way to our libraries. Our
commonsense picture may well be far too sanguine, even inverted. The
closed world is not a small strongbox in the corner of our collective house
of codified and stored knowledge. It is we in the openworld—we whostudy
the world lodged in our libraries, from aardvarks to zymurgy, we who are
living in a modest information booth facing outwards, our unseeing backs
to a vast and classified empire we barely know."- Dr. Peter Galison 2004
