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The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association (Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening) is a well-respected scientific journal and a membership magazine for the Norwegian Medical Association and its hundreds of thousands of members. The project's primary goal is to publish and serve peer-reviewed scientific articles, categorized and well attributed to the authors that are peer-reviewed on Drupal 8/9.

It was crucial to maintain an easy-to-use editorial experience, integrated third-party digital publishing tools, and a clean UI with ads across the website.

In 2019, J-PAL decided to upgrade their website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 to prepare for Drupal 7’s end-of-life and take advantage of the flexibility and scalability offered by Drupal 8. Since this migration required rebuilding the website using an object-oriented programming paradigm, J-PAL also used the upgrade as an opportunity to incorporate new features and re-design many website components and content types for improved accessibility and consistency.

Their online offerings had been in use for the past 5 years and were due for a facelift. In addition to the dire need for a visual update, their previous system was built on an obsolete platform which was not utilising all the features available to them via their worldwide infrastructure managed from their headquarters in Paris. Finally, they had no control over the content they were making available on their mobile apps.

Their online offerings had been in use for the past 5 years and were due for a facelift. In addition to the dire need for a visual update, their previous system was built on an obsolete platform which was not utilising all the features available to them via their worldwide infrastructure managed from their headquarters in Paris. Finally, they had no control over the content they were making available on their mobile apps.