The journal stopped taking registrations when the editorial platform closed, with the last issue in 2015. Nothing on this site asks for an account: the eight issues, their tables of contents and the two papers reproduced in full are open to whoever arrives at the page.
The three roles the form offered
- Reader
- : notified by email on publication of an issue of the journal.
- Author
- : able to submit items to the journal.
- Reviewer
- : willing to conduct peer review of submissions to the site.
One account could carry more than one role, which is why the same screen asked for an affiliation and for a list of reviewing interests. What each role saw once signed in is set out on the log in page.
What the form asked, and why it was not rebuilt
Username and password, salutation, first, middle and last name, initials, gender, affiliation, signature, email, URL, telephone, fax, a full postal address, a short biography, and then the reviewing interests in a free list. Attached to it was a promise: the names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. Rebuilding that user database a decade later would mean handling the data outside the undertaking it was collected under. It was not carried over, and the submissions page keeps the statement in the journal's own wording.
What is open without an account
- Every issue from 2012 to 2015, in the archive, with the page ranges as printed.
- Reuse of the material under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence, including deposit in an institutional repository.
- Citation data: journal title, volume, number, year and page range, with ISSN 2279-9419.
- Correspondence with the editorial office, through the contact page.
If you came here to submit a manuscript
The journal is not accepting submissions and has published nothing since 2015. The instructions for authors and the editorial policies remain online because they document how the papers in the archive were handled, not because a window is open. For urology in Italy the live address is the publisher, AURO.it.
Mail that arrives in the journal's name
The journal charged nothing for submission, processing or publication, not even for colour reproduction of photographs. A message inviting you to publish here for a fee, or within days, does not come from it, whatever the signature says. The unsubscribe page lists what to check before answering one.