The journal ran a login for three groups: readers who wanted the table of contents by email, authors tracking a submission, and reviewers working on a manuscript. All three functions lived in the editorial platform, which closed with the last issue in 2015. There is no account to sign into here, and no password to recover.
What used to sit behind the login
- Readers saw their notification settings and the working language of the interface, English or Italiano.
- Authors followed a submission through the five-step upload, the editorial decision and the proof cycle.
- Reviewers received the blinded manuscript, the review form and the deadline; names were never exchanged, because the journal ran a double-blind process.
What is open now
Everything that was ever published. No account is needed to read an abstract, a table of contents or a reference list, and the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence lets you copy and redeposit the articles without asking anyone. The registration page records what the three roles meant, and the contact page gives the address for anything that used to go through the platform.
Why the accounts are not restored
Rebuilding a login would mean recreating a user database that held names, email addresses and review correspondence of people who registered more than a decade ago, under a privacy statement that promised the data would be used for this journal and nothing else. Keeping that promise means not reconstructing it. The published record — issues, abstracts, citation data — needs no account, and that is what this site serves.
What a reviewer saw
The reviewer workspace held the blinded manuscript, a structured form with the recommendation, and the deadline. Reviewers never saw the author names and authors never saw theirs; the editor assigned to the manuscript was the only person with both sides. The peer review process describes the sequence in the journal's own words, including the seven days within which a decision was communicated.
If you were an author here
Correspondence about a paper published between 2012 and 2015 goes to the publisher's secretariat, listed on the contact page. For a correction to the record of a published paper, include the issue, the page range and the exact wording to be changed; for a copy of a full text file, the corresponding author of the paper is usually faster than any archive.