“In creating the JAMA Network, our aspiration is to seamlessly integrate the wide array of knowledge we deliver into an intuitive, user-centric experience,” said Dr. Howard Bauchner, JAMA Editor in Chief. “Silverchair’s SCM6 technology allows us to create precise, dynamic relationships between articles, evidence, audio and video, teaching tools, and other highly relevant information resources. The JAMA Network on SCM6 is an environment that responds to each user’s needs with far more efficient knowledge discovery and presentation than has previously been possible.”

Features of the new JAMA Network include:

• User-centered design – Provides users with an intuitive interface and highlights key JAMA Network resources, including CME, Online First articles, and multimedia.
• Content in context – Surfaces additionally, highly relevant articles and other resources from across all the publications in the JAMA Network and beyond.
• Mobile optimization – The JAMA Network is optimized for reading on mobile devices.
• Semantic search – Provides better results by normalizing synonyms, alternate spellings, acronyms, and jargon and by connecting closely related concepts.
• Integrated e-commerce – New custom built JAMA Network store streamlines the purchase of subscriptions, CME, articles, and other resources.
• Integrated CME – Available directly on relevant articles as well as via a redeveloped CME section.
• Multimedia – Easy to locate multimedia landing page displayed across the JAMA Network combined with streaming videos viewable within the article environment.
• Semantic Collections – Users from all fields of medicine will find semantically generated topic collections that combine related content from across the Network.

“The JAMA Network grew out of our belief that the user – AMA members, non-member physicians around the world, medical students, other healthcare professionals, and patients and caregivers – should be at the center how we deliver information,” said Betsy Jones, JAMA’s Publisher. “We worked closely with Silverchair to develop a resource that would put the user first, using semantic technology to deliver dynamic content relationships, enable site personalization, and ultimately to put the right information in front of the right person at the right time in order to improve health outcomes.”

“Launching the JAMA Network on SCM6 is a galvanizing milestone for Silverchair,” said Silverchair CEO Thane Kerner. “Semantic technology is frankly a pretty wonky concept; it engenders a lot of theoretical discussion in the publishing community, and stimulates plenty of buzz-word compliant brochures. But the JAMA Network—which is built on the natively semantic SCM6—is a compelling real-world application of semantic theory. It’s not about getting data enriched or building triples. It’s about providing real value to users by leveraging those deep technologies to make information flow more precise and comprehensive.”

To explore the JAMA Network visit: www.jamanetwork.com

About the JAMA Network and the AMA:
Building on a tradition of editorial excellence, The JAMA Network brings JAMA, one of the most-cited and most recognized journals in the world, together with the 9 specialty Archives Journals to offer enhanced access to the research, reviews, and perspectives shaping the future of medicine. Through a variety of innovative tools, The JAMA Network provides the insights that matter most to medical research and practice.

The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest association of physicians in the United States. Since 1847, the AMA has had one mission: to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. Today, the core strategy used to carry out this mission is our concerted effort to help doctors help patients. We do this by uniting physicians nationwide to work on the most important professional and public health issues. Additional information is available at: www.ama-assn.org

About Silverchair Information Systems:
Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Inc. Magazine ranked Silverchair as one of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 2011. This past January, the company received Virginia’s 2012 Governor’s Award for Science Innovation. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

“We are delighted to expand our relationship with Silverchair,” said APhA Senior Vice President, Karen Tracy. “After developing PharmacyLibrary with Silverchair we decided to bring JAPhA to the SCM6 platform. The new JAPhA further integrates our publications portfolio by using semantic enrichment to surface deep content relationships, populate topic collections, and providing our readers with time-saving tools and a better user experience.”

JAPhA is the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Pharmacists Association, providing information on pharmaceutical care, drug therapy, diseases and other health issues, trends in pharmacy practice and therapeutics, informed opinion, and original research. The transition to SCM6 brings a number of improvements to JAPhA and enables the APhA to optimize its information delivery for its audiences, from students to practicing pharmacists.

“We’re very excited to kick off Silverchair’s busy schedule of spring releases with the launch of JAPhA,” said Thane Kerner, Silverchair CEO. “JAPhA.org is an ideal complement to the APhA’s suite of learning tools which includes PharmacyLibrary. We are at our best when collaborating with an organization dedicated to meeting the needs of its diverse audience, and pleased that our technology provides the agile product development environment required for their continued innovation.”

To view the redesigned site and new products firsthand, visit www.JAPhA.org

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About American Pharmacists Association:

APhA was the first-established national professional society of pharmacists, having been founded in 1852 as the American Pharmaceutical Association. It remains the largest association of pharmacists in the United States, boasting more than 60,000 practicing pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, student pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and others interested in advancing the profession.

About Silverchair:

Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

McGraw-Hill’s AccessPediatrics (http://www.accesspediatrics.com), launched on SCM, Silverchair’s web content delivery platform, in May 2011. This innovative online resource for pediatrics residents, students, and educators provides searchable, full-text access to 13 leading McGraw-Hill pediatric medicine textbooks, including Rudolph’s Pediatrics and Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics; curricular management tracking and testing tools; more than 40 animations detailing pediatric procedures and exam walkthroughs, from descriptions of anatomy to the details of pathophysiology; Q&A that helps prepare for the United States Medical Licensing Examination as well as the pediatrics specialty board exam; practical skill-building tools; and thousands of images.

Using Silverchair’s renowned semantic architecture, AccessPediatrics employs a customized, evidenced-based user interface design and a powerful semantic search, brings together a diverse array of content assets in one cohesive and compelling information resource, as now recognized by the PROSE awards.

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About Silverchair: Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

The 2011 winner, Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc, will pass the honor to Silverchair Information Systems tomorrow evening as Governor Bob McDonnell and Science Museum of Virginia Chief Wonder Officer, Richard C. Conti present the award to Silverchair Chief Executive Officer, Thane Kerner. Three scientists will also be honored throughout the evening with Virginia’s 2012 Outstanding Scientists Award.

The Governor’s Award for Science Innovation is designed to recognize an emerging company or organization that has made a significant impact in the areas of science, technology, engineering or mathematics. The award celebrates diversity by recognizing a company or organization that inspires innovation and reinforces the global competitiveness of Virginia for businesses that have fewer than 250 employees with focus in the areas mentioned above.
“We have been working vigorously to help our publisher clients embrace product development and innovation, and so it is a great honor for Silverchair to also be acknowledged for internal innovation,” said Silverchair CEO, Thane Kerner.

Silverchair Information Systems, founded in 1993 began as a small two person office that has grown to over 150 employees dedicated to delivering advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. In June 2011, Silverchair launched SCM6, the most substantial upgrade to its SCM web product development platform in company history. With that announcement, eight leading scientific societies simultaneously announced plans to migrate their digital publishing operations to, and develop new product lines on the new platform. Because SCM6 was built using a natively semantic architecture, these publishers have the capability to rapidly produce new product and features, embrace best-of-breed navigation, and receive support for myriad new business models to optimize their content portfolios. Since the release of SCM6, three additional STM publishers have decided to join the SCM6 platform.

With headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia, Silverchair was recently featured as a fast-growing Job Creator on the Governor’s website as the company continues to expand and bring innovation to the STM & scholarly publishing market.

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The ASME Digital Library is the most extensive resource on mechanical engineering, including more than 158,000 technical papers in 25 journals and 200 conference proceedings spanning from 1970 to the present and more than 130 ASME Press electronic books. ASME publishes approximately 9,000 new papers and 20 new books in the ASME Digital Library annually.

“We chose to move the ASME Digital Library to Silverchair’s SCM6 platform because of its ability to fully integrate all of our content types—journals, proceedings, and ebooks—offering a sophisticated array of semantic technology,” said Philip DiVietro, managing director of ASME Publishing and Unit Support. “Silverchair is the emerging leader in STM publishing technology. We are excited about combining their unique amalgam of technology and product development experience with our content expertise and knowledge of the mechanical engineering field, to develop truly innovative new products and product enhancements to better support the information needs of our diverse members and other stakeholders.”
SCM6 is the latest release of Silverchair’s natively semantic product development and hosting platform. SCM6 supports scientific, technical, and medical (STM) and scholarly publishers, societies, and other organizations to deliver the full array of content formats, functionality, and personalized user experience required by today’s rapidly changing information marketplace.

“We are enthusiastic to be collaborating with ASME, the leader in mechanical engineering, and an organization with a global impact that is advancing technical knowledge across a diverse array of fields, including bioengineering, energy, aerospace, transportation, environmental engineering, construction, and manufacturing,” said Thane Kerner, Silverchair CEO. “The migration of the ASME Digital Library to Silverchair’s SCM6 corresponds with a significant extension of our semantic infrastructure. We have long been recognized for our deep expertise in the life sciences, but we have expanded our semantic systems to support both the physical sciences and engineering. ASME’s forward-thinking, integrated approach to publishing provides the perfect partner for the next step in our semantic roadmap.”

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About ASME: Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is the premier professional membership organization for more than 120,000 mechanical engineers and associated members worldwide. ASME also conducts one of the world’s largest technical publishing operations, offering thousands of titles including some of the profession’s most prestigious journals, conference proceedings, and ASME Press books. Additional information is available at www.asme.org
About Silverchair: Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

McGraw-Hill’s AccessPediatrics (http://www.accesspediatrics.com), launched on Silverchair’s web content delivery platform in May 2011, won the Web Health Silver Award for Medical Education. This innovative online resource for pediatrics residents, students, and educators provides searchable, full-text access to 13 leading McGraw-Hill pediatric medicine textbooks, including Rudolph’s Pediatrics, 22e and Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics, 20e; curricular management tracking and testing tools; more than 40 animations detailing pediatric procedures and exam walkthroughs, from descriptions of anatomy to the details of pathophysiology; Q&A for the Pediatric Board Exam; practical skill-building tools; and thousands of images.

The AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange (http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov), developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and launched on Silverchair’s platform in June 2008, received a Merit Web Health Award for Directory / Ratings / Guides. The AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange offers busy health professionals and researchers a variety of opportunities to share, learn about, and ultimately adopt evidence-based innovations and tools suitable for a range of health care settings and populations.

Both sites utilize Silverchair’s renowned semantic architecture to deliver highly relevant content to healthcare professionals. They employ a customized, evidenced-based user interface design and a powerful semantic search that make them industry leaders for delivering healthcare resources, as now recognized by the Web Health Awards.

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About Silverchair: Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

“We have learned a great deal in the six years since we launched the original version of PsychiatryOnline,” said APA Publisher Rebecca Rinehart. “The new PsychiatryOnline reflects this knowledge, bringing together all of the APA’s key resources in one place, leveraging semantic enrichment to surface deep content relationships and populate topic collections and providing our readers with time-saving tools and innovative products.”
The new PsychiatryOnline brings the APA’s resources together in a unified digital suite, with integrated search and browse functionality along cross-platform topic collections . The DSM Library, Psychiatric News and each individual journal will retain its own branded website with title-specific search and browse so that APA members and other users can focus on the content of most importance to them. Journal transitioning to the new platform include:

• The American Journal of Psychiatry
• Psychiatric Services
• The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
• Academic Psychiatry
• FOCUS, The Journal of Lifelong Learning
• Plus, Psychiatric News

The SCM6 platform also enables the APP to optimize its information delivery for general and subspecialty psychiatrists, providing a intuitive user interface and content design that supports an variety of content types including textbooks, reference works, journals, guidelines, CME, patient education, and news. Additionally, users will find psychiatry-tailored topic collections that surface related content from across the array of content on PsychatryOnline.

“Over the past six years, American Psychiatric Publishing and Silverchair have collaborated to realize our shared vision for a fully integrated content portfolio spanning all of the APA’s professional content,” said Thane Kerner, Silverchair CEO. “By integrating APA’s journals and Psychiatric News, the new PsychiatryOnline makes a dramatic leap toward complete portfolio integration and product innovation, enabled by a semantic architecture.”

Enhanced features of the new PsychiatryOnline include:
• Content semantically enriched at deep levels of granularity enables every page as a content discovery dashboard, surfacing topically and functionally related content into user workflows
• A new, semantically-optimized search engine delivers more precise results, and rapid faceting to support retrieval efficiency
• Psychiatry Online delivers a new interface optimized for mobile devices, and provides seamless access to institutional users even when users roam far from the institution’s network.
To view the redesigned site and new products firsthand, visit www.psychiatryonline.org.

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About American Psychiatric Publishing:

American Psychiatric Publishing (APP), a Division of American Psychiatric Association is the world’s premier publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health and behavioral science. We offer authoritative, up-to-date and affordable information geared toward psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students and the general public.

About Silverchair:

Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at edit.silverchair.com.

“Tim is a world-renowned speaker and someone who has been thinking deeply at the intersection of publishing and technology for a long time. We are thrilled he has agreed to share his perspective and insight with our clients, partners and other industry stakeholders,” said Silverchair Executive Vice President, Michael Clarke. “Silverchair has been participating at O’Reilly conferences for years and we are delighted to bring a piece of that experience to Silverchair Strategies 2011.”

As the CEO of a dynamic and successful technical publisher and a leading technologist, O’Reilly is the ideal keynote speaker for Silverchair Strategies 2011, which is organized around the themes of content integration, personalization, and product development in the science, technical, and medical (STM) and scholarly information space. The majority of the conference will be organized around a series of case studies, workshops, conversational panels, and provocative presentations—including O’Reilly’s keynote.

According to Oreilly.com, “O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future.” Beyond the success of O’Reilly Media, Tim is widely considered a visionary and trend spotter and is notable for having popularized the term “Web 2.0” in the 2005 essay, “What is Web 2.0.”

Mr. O’Reilly’s presentation will take place on Friday, October 28th at the Chicago Ritz-Carlton. Those interested in requesting an invitation to the conference should visit http://strategies.silverchair.com/ for more information.

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About Silverchair: Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at http://www.silverchair.com.

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive research resource on optics and photonics, with more than 320,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present and more than 150 SPIE Press books. SPIE publishes approximately 17,000 new technical papers and 15 to 20 new books in the SPIE Digital Library each year.  

“We chose Silverchair as a strategic partner largely because its strong semantic capabilities will enable the SPIE Digital Library to be a truly integrated information portal,” said Eric Pepper, SPIE Director of Publications. “In addition to supporting essential publishing and usage functionality, SCM6 will enable us to draw connections between topically related information across the SPIE corpus, link to valuable content from other sources of interest to the researchers who use our database, and facilitate user personalization. These are exciting future directions for our Digital Library and our many subscribers and users.”

On Silverchair’s SCM6 platform, the SPIE Digital Library will have new features that will assist researchers. SCM6 is the latest release of Silverchair’s natively semantic product development and hosting platform. SCM6 supports scientific, technical, and medical (STM) and scholarly publishers, societies, and other organizations to deliver the full array of content formats, functionality, and personalized user experience required by today’s rapidly changing information marketplace.

 “We are thrilled to be working with SPIE, the leader in applied optical technology, and an organization that is advancing knowledge at the intersection of optical science and engineering,” said Thane Kerner, Silverchair CEO. “The Silverchair hosting of the SPIE Digital Library corresponds with a significant extension of our semantic infrastructure. We have heretofore been best known for our deep expertise in the life sciences. But in fact, we have expanded our semantic systems to support both the physical sciences and engineering. SPIE’s forward-thinking, integrated approach to publishing provides the perfect partner for the next step in our semantic roadmap.”

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About SPIE: SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving approximately 180,000 constituents from more than 170 countries, the Society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25 major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific.  SPIE provided over $2.3 million in support of education and outreach programs in 2010.  Additional information is available at www.spie.org.

About Silverchair: Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at edit.silverchair.com.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, August 24, 2011 – Inc. magazine has ranked Silverchair Holdings, Inc. #1992 on its fifth annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs. Online retailer ideeli tops this year’s list. Silverchair Holdings, Inc. joins Spirit Airlines, television maker Vizio, Honest Tea, Dunkin Donuts and Metrokane, makers of the Rabbit corkscrew, among other prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

“Silverchair is very fortunate that our innovations have resonated with healthcare and science professionals worldwide. Our accomplishments are driven by a prodigiously talented team that is committed to improving the flow and effect of professional knowledge. Their skill and effort have allowed us to defy the general economic trends,” said Thane Kerner, CEO of Silverchair Holdings.

Virginia-based Silverchair Holdings, Inc. comprises three core technology companies working to streamline the delivery of education and information in health care: Silverchair Information Systems, which enables STM publishers to innovate and grow by enriching high-value content to build new products and applications; Silverchair Learning Systems, the leading provider of online learning and information systems for the senior care industry; and Semedica, which concentrates on browser-based workflow applications that give information publishers the power to enable their content for the semantic web.

In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2011 Inc. 500|5000 companies remains an impressive 94 percent. The companies on this year’s list report having created 350,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $366 billion, up 14 percent from last year.

“Back in 2005, Silverchair Learning Systems was an idea in the mind of our co-founder Bill Glass with five employees sharing a vision to revolutionize the way training was delivered in senior care,” said Mike Mutka, President and COO of Silverchair Learning Systems. “It has been exciting to see our philosophy of innovation and exceptional customer support gain momentum within our industry as we have become the clear market leaders. Inc.’s recognition is gratifying because we now know that our success is evident outside our industry as well.”

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/5000.

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About Silverchair Holdings, Inc.
Silverchair Holdings, Inc. comprises three core technology companies working to streamline the delivery of education and information in health care: Silverchair Information Systems, which enables STM publishers to innovate and grow by enriching high-value content to build new products and applications; Silverchair Learning Systems, the leading provider of online learning and information systems for the senior care industry; and Semedica, which concentrates on browser-based workflow applications that give information publishers the power to enable their content for the semantic web.
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About Inc. and the Inc. 500|5000
Methodology
The 2011 Inc. 500 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2007 to 2010. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2007. Additionally, they had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2010. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2007 is $100,000; the minimum for 2010 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at www.inc.com/500.

About Inc. Magazine
Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures LLC, Inc. (www.inc.com) is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 710,106, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Visit us online at www.inc.com.

About the Inc. 500|5000 Conference
Each year, Inc. and Inc.com celebrate the remarkable achievements of today’s entrepreneurial superstars—the privately held small businesses that drive our economy. The Inc. 500|5000 Conference & Awards Ceremony brings together members of the Inc. community, both a new class of Inc. 500|5000 honorees and the list’s alumni, for three days of powerful networking, inspired learning, and momentous celebration. Please join us September 22–24, 2011, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, located minutes from downtown Washington, D.C. For more information about the 2011 Inc. 500|5000 Conference & Awards Ceremony and to register, visit www.inc500conference.com or call 866-901-3205.