To become a LILACS Cooperating Center (CC) and start giving visibility to the scientific and technical output of your institution or thematic area, check the requirements compliance checklist at: How to Become a Cooperating Center of the LILACS Network.
Access the BVS Network Directory and enter the name of your institution. If you can’t find it, also search using the initials that represent your institution.
If the information is outdated, request an update through the form.
Access the list of journals indexed in LILACS, find the abbreviated title of your journal, and check the CC column.
Then access the VHL Network Directory to verify the name and contact information of the responsible professional.
If you are a Cooperating Center (CC) of the Brazilian Network of Information in Health Sciences and cooperate with the LILACS database, request the update directly via the form, and in the question ‘Indicate the name of the coordinator and the network to which you will contribute,’ provide BIREME/PAHO/WHO.
If you are a CC of other networks such as the Nursing VHL, Dentistry VHL, Fiocruz VHL, RIC VHL, or another network, please contact your coordinator to request the update of the data.
If you are unsure who the coordinator is for your area, access the VHL Network Portal and click on the name of the country present on the banner of this portal, then check the ongoing initiatives and active coordinators.”
To update the registration data for your journal indexed in LILACS, access the specific form and provide the updated information about the journal.
Whenever there are changes in the title, ISSN, article or portal URL link, email, responsible editor, responsible institution, frequency, or contact address of the journal.
Access the list of journals indexed in LILACS, find the abbreviated title of your journal, and check its code in the Editor Code column.
The contributions to the LILACS Network can be verified in two ways:
CONTRIBUTION STATISTICS
To access the contribution statistics, visit the following visualizations:
Each visualization has a specific purpose. Pay special attention to the “Contributions by Cooperating Center” and “Documents Created vs. Updated” visualizations. In all cases, select your Cooperating Center’s code in the filter.
For each visualization, select the LILACS database and your Cooperating Center’s code:
Other sources of information from the VHL (LILACS and VHL Databases)
Choose the “LILACS and VHL Databases” visualization.
Select the LILACS database, your Cooperating Center code, and all dates from the ‘Month, Year of Created Time’ filter.
The data labeled “Created by” refer to records created from scratch within the FI-Admin system. Records previously loaded by BIREME or by the editor of the indexed journal (LILACS-Express) and reviewed and indexed by the Cooperating Center are counted under “Updated by.”
SEARCH IN THE SEARCH INTERFACE
Another method is to search in the interface using prefixes and Boolean operators.
Important: There will always be discrepancies between the data generated from contribution statistics and the numbers from the search interface because, in the latter case, there is a delay caused by data processing and normalization.
If you want to search for the total contribution of your Cooperating Center (CC) code, type:
cc: “your CC code” Example: cc: “BR1.1”
If you want to search for contributions related to a specific year, month, or day, use the following prefixes and operators: cc: “your CC code” AND entry_date
Example:
The technological infrastructure for contributing to LILACS and databases adopting the LILACS Methodology is entirely online and accessible via the internet.
The current systems include:
Any other system not mentioned above has been discontinued with no further updates planned. If you are using other systems, please contact us.
Category: LILACS Network
Every month, databases are updated with automated collections conducted by BIREME. These updates usually occur on Thursdays from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. If the system is down on a different day or time, please contact us to report difficulty accessing the system.