In “About this book”, the editorial board, composed of Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen (Norway), Florian M. E. Wagenlehner (Germany), Yong-Hyun Cho (South Korea), Tetsuro Matsumoto (Japan), John N. Krieger (USA), Daniel Shoskes (USA) and Kurt G. Naber (Germany) explains: “The editors hope that this ‘Living textbook’ may become a useful instrument for physicians of different specialties taking care about patients suffering from these diseases.”

GMS is glad to inform you that the first chapters, like for example“Quality of life and relationships in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: models of self-regulation and psychosocial risk factors” by Dean A. Tripp, Alison Crawford and J. Curtis Nickel, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5680/lhuii000003 and “Interstitial cystitis/chronic bladder pain syndrome: Comprehensive neuromuscular assessment of chronic pelvic pain (including BPS/IC)” by Jörgen Quaghebeur, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5680/lhuii000002 were published.

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The “Living Handbooks” are a joint project by ZB MED and the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF). A living handbook is an online textbook in which new articles can be published or updated any time. The goal is to provide free access to up-to-date scientific information all over the world. All versions of a chapter are long-term available and citeable via the persistent identifier DOI. In a “Living Handbook” it is also possible to combine textual with non-textual materials. The potential of the digital environment is fully exploited; therefore “Living Handbooks” can be considered as a true alternative to the solely PDF representation of handbooks on the web.