The Silverchair AI Lab is an innovative experimentation space where we can bring prototypes to our clients quickly, testing their effectiveness and ensuring they are helping publishers achieve their goals, from improving user experience to protecting the value of content in an evolving knowledge ecosystem. To help publishers gain hands-on experience with AI models, applications, and use cases, we developed the AI Playground, a free, user-friendly tool that allows publishers to discover, stress-test, analyze, and refine their AI strategy and offerings.
The AI Lab has launched several betas, collaborated with clients on a variety of applications, and delivered several robust AI features and products since its launch. Read more about these offerings and follow our progress via blog updates below.
Dynamic Discovery
Find What Matters, Faster
Dynamic Discovery transforms how researchers connect with scholarly content on the Silverchair Platform. It delivers more relevant results more quickly while strengthening publishers’ brands and showcasing the full value of their collections. Built on advanced RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) technology, Dynamic Discovery understands researchers’ questions in context. Instead of relying on perfect keywords, users can ask questions naturally and receive the most relevant articles, books, and conference papers with clear explanations of why each source was selected.
Benefits for Researchers
- Ask plain-language questions and refine searches through follow-up questions
- Quickly identify the most relevant sources from extensive collections
- Connect directly to full-text content with seamless authentication
Publisher Advantages
- Drive platform traffic while maintaining access rights and subscription boundaries
- Surface valuable content across journal, book, and proceedings collections
- Gain insights into researcher interests and content utilization patterns
ScholarOne AI Playground
Evaluate & Experiment, Together
Silverchair has expanded our successful AI Playground to ScholarOne Manuscripts for active experimentation with editors and publishers. We’re working directly with a select group of development partners to explore areas of potential AI support that are most impactful for editors and editorial office staff throughout the publishing process. This user-friendly environment allows publishers and editors to discover, stress-test, and hone when and where to leverage AI in their workflows and informs Silverchair’s future product development.
More from the AI Lab
AI-GENERATED SUMMARIES: Making research findings more accessible
AI-Generated Summaries offer simplified—and automated—plain-language explanations of articles, making them more easily understood by media, funding agencies, and other non-experts. Without asking anything else of your authors, you can offer readers in new audiences a critical tool to bridge the gap between accessibility and understandability.
SILVERCHAT: Helping publishers get the most out of the Silverchair Platform
SilverChat acts as a client’s personal platform expert, answering questions about tools, content specifications, and more on the spot. We pride ourselves on offering the most thorough and innovative customer support possible. With SilverChat, we take it to the next level. (See the tool in action here.)
Related Resources
AI A to Z: A Primer on AI in Publishing
From algorithms to Z-score, we’ve produced an AI primer to help build a shared foundation on AI terms and themes.
AI Lab Reports
This virtual series focused on the experiments, applications, and best practices around AI in scholarly and professional publishing, focusing on actionable takeaways for organizations.