The Faculty of Health Sciences of the María Cano University Foundation was notified by the coordinator of the Virtual Health Library in Colombia, Ana Lorena Niño Téllez, that the Journal of Research and Innovation in Health Sciences, after being reviewed by peers and meet the editorial and scientific quality criteria, RIICS was admitted by the VHL and the LILACS database: “For the Coordination of the Virtual Health Library in Colombia and LILACS in the country, it is a pleasure to welcome the Journals of Research and Innovation in Health Sciences, under the cooperating center code CO192.1 and publisher code CO192.9.”

LILACS is the most important and recognized database of bibliographic information on health sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It has 36 years of experience, 21 countries in the region, 894 journals indexed with peer review, more than 1,003 million records and 578 thousand full texts, including theses and dissertations, government documents, conference annals and books, published from 1982. The indexed material includes systematic reviews, randomized controlled clinical trials, evidence synthesis, health technology evaluation studies, economic evaluation studies, clinical practice guidelines, technical reports, case reports and others. It is a necessary source of information in the search for primary studies of ALyC for systematic reviews, and recommended by the Cochrane Collaboration in the Cochrane Handbook. In addition, it is included in the WHO Global Index Medicus, in Epistemonikos, and complements MEDLINE/PubMed. LILACS is maintained and updated by a network made up of more than 600 educational, governmental, and health research institutions, and coordinated by BIREME (Latin American and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information, initially called the Regional Library of Medicine, from which it originated). the acronym still used) PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) and WHO (World Health Organization).

The Journal of Research and Innovation in Health Sciences (RIICS) is an Ibero-American peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Health Professions, in open access and Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Its purpose is to be a disciplinary communication channel for original and unpublished research and review articles derived from research projects and processes that provide evidence to respond to gaps, needs and current problems. Currently its indexers are: Doaj, Redaly, Dialnet, Dimensions, AmeLICA, AURA, BASE, LivRE, Google Scholar, REDIB, Ulrichsweb, Dardo, among other information and summary systems.

A new institutional achievement that speaks of the quality of the work carried out with this important publication that contributes to the well-being and health of the community at a regional, national and international level.

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