Farmaci urologici autorizzati in Italia e i disturbi per cui si prendono, con revisione medica firmata

The Urologist

About this Publishing System

Open Journal Systems, the old addresses and what survived.

The Urologist was published with Open Journal Systems, the journal management software of the Public Knowledge Project. Knowing that explains the shape of the old addresses, and it explains what can and cannot be recovered from them.

What OJS did for the journal

One installation handled the whole life of a manuscript: author registration, the five-step submission, blind assignment to reviewers, the editorial decision, copy editing, the proof cycle and finally the issue build. Readers saw only the last step — the table of contents, the abstract page and the PDF — but every address on the site came from the same routing scheme, which is why the journal lived under paths that contain index.php/journal.

How the old addresses behave now

This restoration keeps them working. A request for /theurologist/index.php/journal/about returns the About page; an issue address such as /theurologist/index.php/journal/issue/view/10 returns Vol 2, No 1 (2014); an article address resolves to the record for that paper inside its issue. Links printed in older papers and indexed by databases therefore still land on content rather than on an error page.

What is not available

The platform's dynamic parts are gone: there is no login, no submission queue, no reviewer workspace and no server-side full text search index. PDF files served from the old article/download addresses were not preserved by any public web archive, so those addresses now resolve to the record of the paper, where the title, the authors and, where the archive preserved it, the abstract, keywords and reference list can be read. Both papers that survived in full are on the articles page.

Reading tools

OJS shipped a sidebar called Reading Tools, which offered dictionary lookups and searches across related open databases from inside an article page. Those addresses are preserved and point to the article they belonged to: the reading tools of the diversion review and of the stone classification paper. The tools themselves depended on external services that have since changed, so they are not reproduced.

Archiving

The journal took part in the LOCKSS network, which lets participating libraries keep their own permanent copy of the content for preservation and restoration. That is described in the archiving policy, and it is the reason a library copy may exist where a publisher copy does not.

More about the software is available from the Public Knowledge Project.