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SciELO Portal pages and journal documents pages may contain hyperlinks either to internal or external contents. SciELO does the best effort to provide access to the linking contents but broken links may occur due to different causes and SciELO does not owne any responsibility on the integrity of hyperlinks or where they might take the user outside of SciELO Portal’s domain.

SciELO will do all the efforts to correct detected errors on the portal interface and operation.