Books published in Latin America and the Caribbean that comply with the above stated selection criteria should be considered to be indexed in the LILACS database.

Books can be analyzed as a whole or by chapters (analytical). The bibliographic and content description of a chapter or a part enables the utilization of the information system full potentiality.

Different editions of a book will be considered as independent records.

Reprints of the same edition of a book should not be considered as a new record. The information on the reprint can appear as a “note” in the record.

Selection of book chapters

The basic rule for the selection of chapters is: A chapter or a part of a book is considered in itself as an independent bibliographic record when it constitutes a whole, it is self-understandable, and has no connections with the preceding or following chapters.

Normally the chapters considered as analytics have their own author(s) and/or bibliographic references.