The journals to be included in LILACS will be selected by the Selection Committees set up in each country or by a PAHO Special Centre, according to the selection criteria described in Annex II.

The Selection Committee will determine the journals that can be included and their level of selection, that is, if the journal is to be analyzed as a whole (cover-to-cover) or partially, with the selection of articles to be of interest to LILACS. For example, a journal on Economics or Public Administration can be selected if it frequently publishes articles in the interest to the health sciences but, in this case, only those articles will be included in the database.

Information on the selected titles for their inclusion in the LILACS database should be sent to BIREME by the Coordinator Institutions of LILACS in each country for acknowledgement of the new titles and also for their inclusion in the Serials in Health Sciences Database (SeCS). The Coordinator Institution can either send a complete description of a journal or a copy of its cover, title page, management issues for its description by BIREME. Without the description of a journal in SeCS, its corresponding records when sent to LILACS will be automatically rejected by LILACS quality controls.