Editorial correspondence for The Urologist is handled by AURO.it, the Italian association of urologists that funded and published the journal. The secretariat answers questions about the published volumes, about reuse of figures and tables, and about the status of manuscripts that went through the review process while the journal was active.
Publisher and editorial secretariat
AURO.it — Associazione Urologi ItalianiSegreteria: Via Boezio 4/c, 00193 Roma, Italia
Telephone: +39 375 5223315
Email: info@auro.it
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 09.00 to 17.00
Website: www.auro.it
The hours above are the ones the association publishes on its own site. The Google listing carries the address and the telephone number but no opening hours at all, so anyone planning to turn up in person should ring first.
The association also keeps an office in Liguria, listed on Google Maps under the name Auro.it, at Via N. Chiazzari 9, 17027 Pietra Ligure (SV). The same telephone number serves both addresses. The secretariat answers the phone Monday to Friday, 09.00 to 17.00; email is the faster route for anything that needs a written answer.
AURO.it on social platforms
Where to find the publisher
Open the AURO.it listing on Google Maps
What the secretariat can and cannot do
Three questions arrive more often than any others, and the answers are fixed.
Reuse of published material. Every paper in the journal carries a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Reuse in a thesis, a lecture or another journal does not need written permission; it needs attribution to the author, the title of the paper, the issue and the licence. No fee applies, and no form has to be signed.
Copies of the full text. Accepted papers were distributed as PDF files from the journal platform. Where a file is no longer served, the corresponding author is the fastest source: most of the work published here is also deposited in institutional repositories, which the licence explicitly permits.
New submissions. The peer review desk is closed. The submission page explains what the five-step process looked like and where urology manuscripts from Italian groups are being sent instead.
Reader notifications
Readers who registered with the journal received the table of contents of each new issue by email. That list is described on the notifications page, together with the publication events recorded between March 2012 and August 2015.
Pharmacology desk
The Italian-language farmacopea section is maintained separately from the journal archive. Corrections to a drug sheet — a changed dosage, a new contraindication, a price that no longer matches the Italian market — are welcome at the same address; write "farmacopea" in the subject line so the message reaches the right editor.