The LILACS database, which stands for Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences, is a specialized bibliographic index with scientific and technical production in Health Sciences published by institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

It is a free-access database, without the need for a subscription, coordinated by BIREME/PAHO/WHO and maintained by a network of national and thematic coordinators, journal editors, and cooperating centers that make up the LILACS Network.

It contains more than one million documents from 30 countries, with about 70% linked to full texts. The types of documents accepted include:

• Books and book chapters
• Papers published in conference or symposium proceedings
• Technical-scientific reports
• Government documents
• Doctoral theses or highest degree theses in all areas of Health Sciences
• Master’s dissertations in Public Health and Nursing
• Articles from journals indexed in LILACS;
• Other documents in accordance with the Document Selection Guide for the LILACS Database.