• 1. Responsibility and selection process of titles by the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Information System
• 2 Admission process of new journals to LILACS ^[19]
  • 2.1 LILACS criteria for journal admission ^[2]
    • 2.1.1 Language
    • 2.1.2 Scope
  • 2.2 Mérito científico ^[1]
    • 2.2.1 Republishing of articles
  • 2.3 Peer review
  • 2.4 Integrity and Ethics in scientific publication
  • 2.5 Editorial Committee
  • 2.6 Editorial production flow ^[2]
    • 2.6.1 Periodicity and quantity of articles
    • 2.6.2 Punctuality
  • 2.7 Lifetime
  • 2.8 Standardization ^[3]
    • 2.8.1 Journal identification
    • 2.8.2 Instructions to authors
    • 2.8.3 Electronic journals
  • 2.11 Appeal
  • 2.9 Open access
  • 2.10 Graphic Presentation (Layout)
• 3. Evaluation of permanence of titles of the collection
• 4. Commitment of editors