CASE STUDY · 08 / 09

Octopus

Octopus is a new publishing platform designed to replace journals and papers as the means of sharing scientific knowledge and ideas. It is designed to serve the needs of science and scientists above all else in order to ensure that good scientific practice is recognized and rewarded and that there is no longer any advantage to questionable research practices.

Challenge

The client was dealing with multiple errors client and server-side, missing functionalities and a design that was not implemented as required.

Solution

We changed the publication process by making it more clearer and easier to use, improved search functionality for publications & authors, added the concept of author metrics and support for file processing (upload, edit and download pdf and docx files) including versioning, rating and flagging publications.