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The 35^th anniversary of LILACS was marked by an online session that took place on 29 October accompanied by more than 400 connections, with the participation of with the participation of Jarbas Barbosa, PAHO/WHO Assistant Director, Sebastian García, Director of the Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, and BIREME collaborators, who made presentations on the history, present and future of LILACS, under the moderation of the Director of BIREME, Diego González.

LILACS celebrated its 35^th birthday on October 29, 2020, but its history started many years earlier, in many ways intertwined with BIREME’s history, created in 1967. In fact, the prospect of creating a bibliographic index of the literature of Region started in 1967, on the recommendation of BIREME’ Scientific Committee. This and other facts are remembered in this brief compilation of LILACS’ history.

The selection and permanence criteria of LILACS journals, effective as of October 29, 2020, were launched during the celebration of the database’s 35 years and aim to consolidate the selection criteria LILACS Brazil and LILACS Nursing and meet preparations for Open Science in journals indexed in the database.

LILACS is a model and methodology for describing, indexing and managing bibliographic content, an Information System composed of networks of national coordinators, cooperating centers, journal editors, indexers, evaluation committees, researchers and authors. Learn more about how this knowledge network interacts in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Colombia VHL joins the celebration of LILACS’ 35 years, participating in the organization of the virtual event Knowledge Management: Science and Health for All, on the occasion of the 2^nd Colombia VHL Week and the 23^rd National Day of Health Information Units Updating and Training (UNIRECS).

The Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS), in the framework of its 35^th anniversary, launched on October 29 an Internet Portal that will remain active and updated until October 2021, with the contribution of its cooperation network.

Within the framework of the analysis of its 2020-2021 Work Plan (BWP 20-21) and even though in emergency teleworking during the global pandemic of COVID-19 since mid-March/20, BIREME/PAHO/WHO achieved important advances. Ten of the main results achieved in the first semester of 2020 are shared here, especially scientific information on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

The 58^th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) took place virtually in 2020, where Health Ministers and high-country officials discussed the region’s response to the COVID -19 pandemic, as well as other challenges. The Latin American and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information (BIREME), PAHO / WHO Regional Scientific Information Center, was on the agenda with the replacement of two member countries of its Advisory Committee.

TA6/TC95 is oriented towards Improving the Management of the Executive Secretariat of the Ministry of Health of Brazil, and relies on the participation of the Technical Areas of PAHO/ WHO Brazil and of BIREME/PAHO/WHO, which cooperates specifically with results related to the management of scientific and technical health information and communication. Meetings are periodically held to communicate results obtained in the subprojects that make up the Term of Cooperation in force and to align expectations of new developments, such as the one that took place on October 2^nd, which was attended by the Deputy Secretary for Administrative Affairs of the Ministry of Health.

BIREME launched the new Health Science Descriptors (DeCS in its Portuguese acronym) website on September 18, during a web conference attended by 390 people from 28 countries in the Americas and Europe regions. For 34 years, DeCS has played a fundamental role in the management and access to information and knowledge in Health Sciences. Produced by BIREME/PAHO/WHO, it is a controlled vocabulary organized hierarchically and derived from the thesaurus Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) , produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).