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LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature)

BIREME/PAHO/WHO

HDB-0628

LILACS is a regional database coordinated by BIREME/PAHO/WHO and built collaboratively by institutions from Latin America and the Caribbean, which collects, indexes, and stores citations of documents published by various organizations. It is used to search health sciences literature from the region, and access is provided through its website, which offers search tools and lists of indexed journals.

Category

Literature database

Access

Open access

Region

Latin America

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Record HDB-0628 · last verified 2026-09-11 · listed in Medical literature databases

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