LILACS is a cooperative database of the VHL network that covers the health sciences literature published in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean since 1982. It contains more than 400.000 records and includes articles from about 1.300 of the most well-known journals in the health area, from which about 730 ones are indexed. The database also contains other documents such as theses, chapters of theses, books, chapters of books, congress and conference proceedings, technical and scientific reports and governmental publications.
