FAQ Introduction Text

About LILACS

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

     What is LILACS methodology?

     Why is LILACS important?

     What is the LILACS?

LILACS Database

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

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

     What are the LILACS thematic areas?

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

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

     What is the update frequency of the LILACS database?

     How to access documents indexed in LILACS?

     How does the LILACS database work?

     Where can I access the LILACS database?

     Do I need to pay to search the LILACS database?

     What is the difference between the LILACS database and SciELO?

     What is the difference between LILACS and the VHL Portal?

     What is the LILACS database?

Indexing of Documents in the LILACS Methodology

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

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

     What is document indexing according to the LILACS Methodology?

Selection Criteria of LILACS

     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?

     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?

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

     What are the selection criteria of the LILACS database?

LILACS Express

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

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

      How can a journal become part of LILACS-Express?

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

      Will references with LILACS-Express status be indexed?

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

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

      How often is LILACS-Express updated?

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

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

      How to enter data as a LILACS-Express editor?

      Who sends the journal data to LILACS-Express?

      What is the participation of editors in LILACS-Express?

      What is the difference between LILACS and LILACS-Express?

      Who participates in the LILACS-Express process?

      Why is LILACS-Express important?

      What is LILACS-Express?

 Selection of Periodicals for LILACS

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

      How are the National Selection Committees constituted?

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

Selection of Periodicals for LILACS Brazil

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Treatment of Periodicals in the LILACS Methodology

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

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

    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?

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

Bibliographic Description according to the LILACS Methodology

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

     Should I include a period after entering the information in the system fields?

     What should be done when the Author Keywords information is not available in the document?

     Can I insert the link to the document summary if the link to the full text is not available?

     Should I include links to all available languages of the document in the full text link field?

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

     How should titles and subtitles be recorded?

     When filling in the field “Title translated into English”?

     How do you describe a supplement of a journal with abstracts of papers presented at conferences in LILACS?

     How should the issue volume field be filled out?

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

     How to fill in the issue number field?

     How to fill in the issue publication date field?

     How to fill in the normalized publication date field for the issue?

     How should the Personal Author field be filled out?

     How to fill in the author’s first and last name in the Personal Author field?

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

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

     Should the institution’s name be registered in the affiliation field even 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 the information “s.af,” should I fill in the country and city fields?

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

     Should all abstracts in the document be recorded?

     Should all the author keywords in the document be recorded?

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

     Why should I make the full text of the documents available?

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

     How to check if the issue sent is in LILACS?

     Can the title and other information of the document be recorded in uppercase (all caps)?

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

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