FAQ Introduction Text

About LILACS

     What is the LILACS?

     What is LILACS methodology?

     What is the LILACS Network or the Latin American and Caribbean System of Information on Health Sciences?

     Why is LILACS important?

LILACS Database

     What is the LILACS database?

     What is the difference between LILACS and the VHL Portal?

     What is the difference between the LILACS database and SciELO?

     Do I need to pay to search the LILACS database?

     Where can I access the LILACS database?

     How does the LILACS database work?

     What are the LILACS thematic areas?

     How to access documents indexed in LILACS?

     Are all articles from a journal indexed in LILACS available in the database?

     Is the full text link of all articles included in the LILACS database available?

     What is the update frequency of the LILACS database?

     What is the average processing time for contributions sent to BIREME?

     How to check if BIREME/PAHO/WHO has received the printed copies of the journal?

Selection Criteria of LILACS

     What are the selection criteria of the LILACS database?

     What are the criteria for a journal to be indexed in LILACS?

     Is there a difference in the selection criteria applied across LILACS countries and thematic areas?

     Why is there an indexed journal and documents published in the United States within the LILACS database if the coverage is from Latin America and the Caribbean?

     Can supplements with event summaries and special issues of magazines be included in LILACS?

     Are comments, retractions, and errata published in journals registered in LILACS?

 Selection of Periodicals for LILACS

      How is the process of journal selection for indexing in the LILACS database carried out?

      How are the National Selection Committees constituted?

      Why is the evaluation and selection of journals for indexing in LILACS carried out in a decentralized manner?

Selection of Periodicals for LILACS Brazil

      What are the criteria used for evaluating Brazilian journals for indexing in the LILACS database?

      What type of assessment is conducted in the LILACS Brazil journals selection process?

      How is the selection process for Brazilian journals for indexing in the LILACS database conducted?

     Is there a specific date or period of the year to submit a Brazilian journal for evaluation by LILACS?

      How to submit my institution’s journal for evaluation for indexing in the LILACS Brazil database?

      Are there differences in the evaluation process for electronic or print journals for the LILACS Brazil database?

      Which health areas’ journals are evaluated by the LILACS Brazil Journals Evaluation and Selection Committee?

      Who evaluates Brazilian journals submitted for evaluation for indexing in LILACS?

      Who are the members of the LILACS Brazil Journals Evaluation and Selection Committee?

      After the evaluation of a journal, how is the assessment communicated?

      When will the results of the LILACS Brazil journals evaluation be published?

     What do ad hoc reviewers assess in a journal submitted for evaluation for indexing in the LILACS database?” 

      If a journal is selected, from which issue will it be indexed?

      If my journal is not indexed or the indexing is terminated in the LILACS database, what should I do?

      Can I participate in the evaluation and selection process of journals for the LILACS Brazil collection as a reviewer?

LILACS Express

      What is LILACS-Express?

      Why is LILACS-Express important?

      Who participates in the LILACS-Express process?

      How can a journal become part of LILACS-Express?

      What is the difference between LILACS and LILACS-Express?

      What is the participation of editors in LILACS-Express?

      Who sends the journal data to LILACS-Express?

      How to enter data as a LILACS-Express editor?

      Is there any activity that an editor of an automatically collected journal should perform?

      Are there differences in data entry for electronic or printed journals in the LILACS database?

      What is SciELO’s role in the LILACS-Express initiative?

      What is the role of the LILACS network Cooperating Centers (CC) in the LILACS-Express initiative?

      What is the update frequency for journals indexed in the LILACS database?

      It is possible to access the full texts of the records identified as LILACS-Express?

      Why is the data from my journal no longer being collected?

      Will references with LILACS-Express status be indexed?

      What happens to the records with LILACS-Express status after thematic indexing?

Treatment of Periodicals in the LILACS Methodology

    Can I change the title of my journal? What is the impact of this change?

    The link to my journal has changed, what do I need to do regarding the articles indexed in LILACS?

    Why is the journal title the same as the printed issue and not the online one?

     How to consult/locate the abbreviated title of a journal?

    How is the country of publication of a journal defined for LILACS?

Indexing of Documents in the LILACS Methodology

     What is document indexing according to the LILACS Methodology?

     How many descriptors should I apply to a document? Is there a limit for the registration of descriptors and publication types?

     Is there a difference in how to index different types of documents and studies?

Bibliographic Description according to the LILACS Methodology

     How to describe a magazine supplement with abstracts of papers presented at conferences in LILACS?

     What does source and analytical mean in the LILACS management system (FI-Admin)?

     How should the volume field be filled out?

     How should the issue number field be filled out?

     How should the publication date of the issue be filled out?

    How should the normalized publication date of the issue be filled out?

     How should the Personal Author field be filled out?

     How should the author’s first and last names be entered in the Personal Author field?

    If the author’s name is abbreviated in the document, should I include a period after the abbreviated last names of the authors?

     What is author affiliation, and how should this information be entered in the Personal Author field?

     Should the institution’s name be recorded in the affiliation field if the author is no longer affiliated with it?

     If a document lists more than one affiliation for an author, should all institutions they are affiliated with be registered?

     What does the expression “s.af” mean and when is it used in the author’s affiliation?

     When the author’s affiliation field is recorded with “s.af,” should the country and city fields be filled in?

     Can state abbreviations be recorded in the city field of the author’s affiliation?

     How should titles and subtitles be recorded?

     Should all available languages of the document be recorded in the title field?

     How should the Translated Title field be filled out in English?

    Can the title and other document information be recorded in uppercase?

     Should a period be included after entering information in the system fields?

     Should all of the author’s keywords in the document be recorded?

    What to do when the Author’s Keywords information is not available in the document?

     Should all abstracts in the document be recorded?

     Why should I provide full-text access to documents?

     How should the electronic address field for the document be filled out?

     Can I insert a link to the document’s abstract if the full-text link is not available?

     In the full-text link field, should I include the link for all available languages in the document?

     What full-text file formats are accepted by the LILACS system?

     Can document information be copied from the journal’s website or PDF and pasted directly into the system’s data field?

     When I copy and paste information from the document into the FI-Admin system fields, some characters are replaced with strange characters. What should I do?

     How to check if the issue sent is in LILACS?

LILACS Network

     My institution would like to cooperate with LILACS. How should I proceed?

     How to find out the Cooperating Center code in the Network?

     How do I identify the Cooperating Center responsible for indexing my journal in LILACS?

     How do I request an update to the registration data of my institution?

    How can I request a correction for an article published in LILACS?