Case Study: Institute of Physics (IOP Publishing) achieves faster publishing and lower costs with MarkLogic

IOP Publishing Cuts Costs and Increases Efficiency

IOP Publishing, the nonprofit publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, distributes a vast portfolio of scientific content (about 450,000 articles) to a global audience of over 50,000 users with up to a million page requests a day. Faced with a slow, costly eight-layer Oracle/Hibernate stack that duplicated content and delayed publishing, the small Java-based development team needed a more efficient, low-budget solution they could roll out with no downtime.

The team taught themselves MarkLogic using documentation, community resources, conferences and small proofs of concept, then migrated content section by section—starting with article landing pages and moving on to full articles and journals. The switch cut operational costs (reducing the need for multiple DBAs), sped up content delivery and time-to-publish, was completed in-house under budget and on schedule, and set the team up to finish migrating all journals and expand MarkLogic search across IOP content.

Institute of Physics

Will Funnell

Systems Developer