Health Information Networks play a crucial role in strengthening and expanding BIREME’s efforts to support the VHL, LILACS, DeCS, and all other information sources that contribute to democratizing access to scientific health knowledge and enhancing its visibility across Latin America and the Caribbean.
The 2025 Network Meetings Calendar includes 26 sessions on the following key themes:
- Best practices in editorial processes for LILACS scientific journals
- Innovation in information products and services
- Document indexing following the LILACS Methodology
- Access to and use of information
Thursday on the Zoom platform. Check the schedule for the time.
Join in, follow the schedule, and add it to your calendar. And if you missed a session or want to review the presented content, access the session presentations and recordings.

Next session:
Retraction and editorial ethics: prevention, good practices, and lessons learned
July 24

Agenda:
- Retraction and editorial ethics
Vivienne C. Bachelet, University of Santiago of Chile, Chile
- Practical strategies for journal editors in the face of retraction
Mirelys Puerta-Díaz, BIREME/PAHO/WHO
- Initiatives related to LILACS and BIREME Information Products and Services
Sueli Mitiko Yano Suga, BIREME/PAHO/WHO
Date: July 24, 2025
Time: 12:00 AM (Brasília time, GMT-3) (Please check your local time)
The online session will be held via Zoom and conducted in Spanish
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