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Just like table(), observers() and properties() it checks the model for the $_views property and returns them (as the docblock says). Now as to what they are for: you can define database views based on your normal table with additional columns that may be fetched. You set these in the class definition using:

// example where I have an extra column counting the number of another model that belong to the base model
 protected static $_views = array(
  'counted' => array(
   'columns' => array('transaction_count'),
  ),
 );

And when querying:

$logs = Model_Log::query()->use_view('counted')->get();