Your SciELO Platform profile allow you to have access to the products and information services from VHL network. For this, your user and password previously registered in SciELO now are unified, they become your passport in any BVS and SciELO applications. If you have a registered user in ScIELO website, the next time you access SciELO or VHL websites, use your SciELO access acount. The application will guide you how to update your SciELO acount. The e-mail registered in you user account know will be used to you authentication.
The new Integrated Services Platform for Virtual Health Library (VHL) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) networks will allow the contents of both networks to be accessed seamlessly. This will require you to identify yourself through your passport, or your user name and password. If you are a new user, register here (link to the passport).
The biggest news is that the passport will give access to the same personalized services on the VHL and SciELO network. This means you can select documents of interest, define your own collection, access documents related to your interest profiles, news and other select products and services information and save them on your User Profile. Subsequently, these contents remain accessible when using your passport to access VHL and SciELO sites.
The registration, all products and information services will remain free. The VHL and SciELO maintain the principles of open access, thus providing the scientific and technical literature on the Internet without cost to the user, usage license or barriers restricting access.
In the future, these new features will be applied in other instances of VHL in all geographical regions and thematic areas of the VHL, through the concept of passport VHL and SciELO.