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LILACS database

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?

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?

How to access documents indexed in LILACS?

What are the LILACS thematic areas?

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?

How to search

Why is LILACS important?

What is the LILACS database?

How do I search for a specific article or document?

Which databases should I search to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis?

How can I find keywords for my article in the health field?

How to export or email search results?

How to search words in title, abstract, and subject simultaneously?

Can I receive specialized assistance for my search?

What is truncation and how to apply it?

What is My VHL?

Selection Criteria of LILACS

Are comments, retractions, and errata published in journals registered in LILACS?

Can supplements with event summaries and special issues of magazines be included 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?

Is there a difference in the selection criteria applied across LILACS countries and thematic areas?

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

What are the selection criteria of the LILACS database?

Bibliographic description according to the LILACS Methodology

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

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?

How to describe a magazine supplement with abstracts of papers presented at conferences in LILACS?

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

How should the volume field be filled out?

How should the issue number field be filled out?

How should the publication date of the issue be filled out?

How should the normalized publication date of the issue be filled out?

How should the Personal Author field be filled out?

How should the author’s first and last names be entered in the Personal Author field?

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

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

Should the institution’s name be recorded in the affiliation field 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 “s.af,” should the country and city fields be filled in?

How to check if the latest articles published in the journal are available in LILACS?

How should titles and subtitles be recorded?

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

How should the Translated Title field be filled out in English?

Can the title and other document information be recorded in uppercase?

Should a period be included after entering information in the system fields?

Should all of the author’s keywords in the document be recorded?

What to do when the Author’s Keywords information is not available in the document?

Should all abstracts in the document be recorded?

Why should I provide full-text access to documents?

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

Can I insert a link to the document’s abstract if the full-text link is not available?

In the field Link to full text, should I include the links for all the languages available in the document?

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

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

User questions

How can I find a journal to publish my article in the health field?

How can I find keywords for my article in the health field?

How can I request a correction for an article published in LILACS?

Why didn’t my article appear or get retrieved in the LILACS search interface?

How can I publish my monograph, dissertation, or thesis in LILACS?

How can I publish my article in LILACS?

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 to the number of descriptors and types of publication?

What is document indexing according to the LILACS Methodology?

LILACS Express

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

What is LILACS-Express?

Why is LILACS-Express important?

Who participates in the LILACS-Express process?

How can a journal become part of LILACS-Express?

What is the difference between LILACS and LILACS-Express?

What is the participation of editors in LILACS-Express?

Who sends the journal data to LILACS-Express?

How to enter data as a LILACS-Express editor?

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

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

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

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

What is the update frequency for journals indexed in the LILACS database?

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

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

Will references with LILACS-Express status be indexed?

Advanced search

How to search by author?

How to convert my search strategy for LILACS?

How to search using search fields?

How to search documents by publication date?

How to search by country of publication?

How to search by subject descriptor DeCS/MeSH?

How to search by language of the document?

Best practices for building a search strategy and documenting the research

How to search by words in a document abstract?

How to combine different fields in a single search?

How to use Boolean operators to combine terms and refine my search?

How to search by study methodology or by publication type?

How to search for a specific journal?

LILACS Network

I can’t access the system, what should I do?

I’m trying to access the FI-Admin system, but it’s currently down. Why does this happen?

What are the current systems to contribute to LILACS?

How can I verify the contributions of the Cooperating Centers in LILACS?

How to find your publisher code in LILACS?

When should I update the data of my journal indexed in LILACS?

How to request an update of the data of my journal indexed in LILACS?

How do I request an update to the registration data of my institution?

How do I identify the Cooperating Center responsible for indexing my journal in LILACS?

My institution would like to cooperate with LILACS. How should I proceed?

How to find the Cooperating Center code in the Network?

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

Selection of Periodicals for LILACS Brazil

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?

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?

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

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?

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

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

What are the criteria used for evaluating Brazilian journals for indexing in the LILACS database?

About LILACS

Why is LILACS important?

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

What is LILACS methodology?

What is the LILACS?

Treatment of Periodicals in the LILACS Methodology

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

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?

The link to my journal has changed, what do I need to do regarding the articles indexed in LILACS?

Can I change the title of my journal? What is the impact of this change?

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