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LILACS Database (IN REVISION)

LILACS database - Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature - is a cooperative database built by the institutions which integrate the Latin American and Caribbean of Health Sciences Information System.

LILACS has been published since 1982 and registers the health scientific-technic literature published by Latin American and Caribbean authors.

The main objectives of this database are the bibliographic control and the dissemination of health scientific-technique literature from Latin American and Caribbean countries, absentee from the international databases.

It covers the description and indexing of theses, books, books chapters, congresses or conferences annals, scientific-technical reports, journal articles, etc, related to health area.

The access to the LILACS database can be carried through the compact disk LILACS/CD and integrally in the VHL's - Virtual Health Library's in the Scientific Literature item, through the common search interface [iAH]. Bibliographical references include links to electronic full texts databases, as well as to the online VHL's Cooperative Service for Accessing Documents [SCAD].

LILACS/CD ROM is published quarterly and includes the databases of LILACS System, databases of Specialized Centers and World Health Organization Library, and the database SeCS - Serials in Health Sciences. It can be acquired by signature for any user or library and its distribution politics to the Cooperating Centers is based on the contribution for the LILACS database.
BIREME - PAHO - WHO
Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information
Department of Knowledge Management, Bioethics and Research – KBR
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Tel: (55 11) 5576-9800 • Fax: (55 11) 5575-8868
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