{"id":6130333,"date":"2022-08-17T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openathens.net\/?post_type=case-studies&p=6130333"},"modified":"2024-03-20T14:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:43:56","slug":"oxford-university-press-platform-migration","status":"publish","type":"case-studies","link":"https:\/\/www.openathens.net\/case-studies\/oxford-university-press-platform-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAthens assists Oxford University Press with successful migration of Oxford Academic platform."},"content":{"rendered":"
The Oxford Academic platform<\/a> features over 500 journals and 40,000 academic book titles and on average is accessed by OpenAthens Federation <\/a>users more than 102,000 times each month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n The Oxford University Press team wanted to implement a new access control system for its Oxford Academic platform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n The project had to ensure:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n All of this had to be transparent to users with no interruptions to service availability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n We started working with Oxford University Press in early November 2021, and the project completed on 24 January 2022 with a successful platform migration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n Rebecca Sharp (Delivery Manager at Oxford University Press) was undertaking a significant upgrade of the technology. She knew the project required detailed communication between separate platform providers as well as an external view of the pre-release target. The ability to test, retest and to implement flexibility around key timings for the project were also key. The migration date and other key milestones needed to be flexible, as did the team overseeing them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n A key consideration for Oxford University Press was the complexity of the data transfer. There was no room for data gaps or loss, and the client required a developer view to validate Silverchair and HighWire updates. Providing the client with test proxy targets and user accounts was also crucial to ensure everything was in the right place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n The significant scale of the project meant every aspect needed to come together at the right time, with no disruption to access to content for the OpenAthens users reliant on accessing information. The team overseeing the transition needed to be in regular communication and fully accessible during the D-day switchover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n Rebecca explains:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n \u201cThe scale and complexity of the project was significant and having seen how OpenAthens can manage this size of data transfer, and worked closely with their team of SAML experts on other initiatives, we knew they could manage it competently and efficiently. They provided the reassurance, transparency and flexibility of support we required. The project didn\u2019t disappoint.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe issue<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n
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