<s>
The	O
Literatura	O
Latino-Americana	O
e	O
do	O
Caribe	O
em	O
Ciências	O
da	O
Saúde	O
(	O
in	O
Portuguese	O
)	O
,	O
acronym	O
LILACS	B-Application
,	O
and	O
previously	O
called	O
Latin	O
American	O
Index	O
Medicus	O
,	O
is	O
an	O
on-line	O
bibliographic	B-Library
database	I-Library
in	O
medicine	O
and	O
health	O
sciences	O
,	O
maintained	O
by	O
the	O
Latin	O
American	O
and	O
Caribbean	O
Center	O
on	O
Health	O
Sciences	O
Information	O
(	O
also	O
known	O
as	O
BIREME	O
,	O
located	O
in	O
São	O
Paulo	O
,	O
Brazil	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
database	O
is	O
structured	O
using	O
the	O
LILACS	B-Application
Methodology	O
,	O
which	O
comprises	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
LILDBI-Web	O
,	O
and	O
more	O
recently	O
,	O
FI-ADMIN	O
Software	O
:	O
programs	O
used	O
to	O
make	O
the	O
description	O
and	O
indexing	B-Library
of	O
documents	O
,	O
in	O
addition	O
to	O
performing	O
data	O
checking	O
,	O
required	O
by	O
the	O
Methodology	O
;	O
</s>
<s>
DeCS	O
vocabulary	O
-	O
Health	O
Sciences	O
Descriptors	O
:	O
controlled	O
vocabulary	O
used	O
in	O
indexing	B-Library
to	O
ensure	O
accurate	O
retrieval	O
of	O
bibliographic	O
references	O
;	O
</s>
<s>
Indexing	B-Library
Manual	O
:	O
guides	O
in	O
indexing	B-Library
the	O
documents	O
described	O
in	O
LILDBI-Web	O
and	O
FI-ADMIN	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LILACS	B-Application
indexing	B-Library
follows	O
an	O
indexing	B-Library
policy	O
quite	O
similar	O
to	O
the	O
NLM	O
-	O
National	O
Library	O
of	O
Medicine	O
;	O
</s>
<s>
Document	O
Selection	O
Guide	O
:	O
guides	O
in	O
the	O
selection	O
of	O
documents	O
and	O
journal	O
articles	O
that	O
will	O
be	O
inserted	O
in	O
the	O
LILACS	B-Application
database	O
.	O
</s>
