Date: The LILACS Scientific Editors Meeting will be an activity of the 6ª. Regional Coordination Meeting of the Virtual Health Library (VHL6), prior to the 9th  Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS9), on October 21, 2012, in Washington, D.C., United States.

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 01:00 p.m.

Venue: Pan American Health Organization Headquarters ,525 23rd St NW, Washington, D.C., United States

Official languages: slides in English, presentations in Spanish, English, or Portuguese (no simultaneous translation provided)

Coordination: BIREME – Latin-American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, Knowledge Management and Communications (KMC) Area, Pan American Health Organization.

Objective: To share experiences among journal editors and members of editorial teams for promoting the strengthening of LILACS, which is celebrating its 27^th anniversary in 2012, as well as the quality of journals published in the Region.

Audience: LILACS journal editors and editorial team members, researchers and authors.

Central theme: LILACS towards the strengthening and visibility of health research in Latin America and theCaribbean

9:00h – 9:30h – Welcome words of the Director of BIREME, Adalberto Tardelli

Strengthening of LILACS as a repository of the Latin American and Caribbean health sciences literature

Panel 1: LILACS’ contribution for health decision making

9:30h – 9:50h – Characteristics of  clinical trials published by  LA&C researchers analyzed by the types of financing. Speaker: Dr. Ludovic Reveiz, Public Policies and Research for Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C.

9:50h – 10:10h – The use of LILACS indexed papers for decision making in health. The case of hypertension. Speaker: Dr. Pedro Orduñez, Chronic Diseases Prevention and Control, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C.

10:10h- 10:25h Coffee break

Conference

10:25h – 11:10h – Importance of using reporting guidelines to improve the quality of research papers and journals. Speaker: Iveta Simera, Head of Program Development, EQUATOR Network, United Kingdom

Panel 2: Open access and dissemination of health research outputs

11:10h – 11:30h – New trends in publishing, including open access and their effects on the dissemination of scientific research. Speaker: Hooman Momen, editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Geneva

11:30h – 11:50h – Capes Portal of Periodicals: where are we now? Speaker: Maria Isabel L. da Cunha, Editor of Revista Brasileira de Pós-Graduação, CAPES, Brazil

11:50h – 12:30h – Discussion

12:30h – 13:00h – Recommendations and closing session