Scope
Opennet will include references to all Department of Energy (DOE) documents declassified and made publicly available after October 1, 1994. New references will be added periodically as they are available. In addition to these documents, Opennet references older document collections from several DOE sources.
These collections include citations to several types of documents. Some have
been declassified in total, and are identified as "declassified." Others have had
classified or other restricted information removed to produce a "sanitized"
version. The term "redacted" is sometimes used to refer to these documents.
This accounts for the blank spaces that can be found in some of the documents.
Some of the documents have never been classified,
but are included as part of one of the collections or for their historical
interest. They are identified as "never classified."
Also, although a reference to a document may be found in Opennet, not all copies of that document are necessarily unclassified. Opennet carries no authority to declassify other copies of a specific document. Anyone who has question regarding a specific document should contact the originating organization.
Opennet is intended to make information that is no longer classified more readily available to the public. This action will support the processes envisioned by the Openness Initiative of Public Awareness, Public Education, Public Input, and Public Access.