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Scope and content

The yellow report series includes the proceedings of schools and of workshops having a large impact on the future of CERN, as well as reports on new activities which do not yet have another natural platform (e.g. a yellow report only for the first in the series if a workshop leads to multiple follow-ups).

The series also includes reports on detectors and technical papers from individual CERN divisions, again the criteria being that the audience should be large and the duration of interest long. Documents relating to patents are particularly appropriate since a divisional report does not give the necessary protection of the intellectual rights.

The Yellow Reports have to be approved by the CERN Reports Editorial Board (CREB), who call for the advice of referees when judged necessary.

Yellow reports are published on the World Wide Web in addition to paper. The tendency will be to reduce the number of copies printed at CERN.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information

Nothing was destroyed.

Accruals

The collection is still open and accruals are received annually, soon after they are produced.

System of arrangement

The original order (numerical and chronological) has been preserved.