NEWS & EVENTS

Trust Infrastructure and the Version of Record

Posted Dec 16, 2025

This post is excerpted from Silverchair’s Science Communication Toolkit, an exclusive resource available to Silverchair Platform clients. The toolkit explores how publishers can harness emerging technologies and communication strategies to ensure research...

Teaching AI with AI: How Silverchair Built a Scalable Skills Development Program

Posted Dec 15, 2025

With artificial intelligence reshaping companies and organizations across industries around the globe, no sector remains untouched. We’re witnessing this revolution firsthand in the scholarly publishing industry, where AI is fundamentally...

Demystifying Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Posted Dec 11, 2025

Especially in the last few years, the world of technology can feel oversaturated with ever new acronyms and buzzwords, all competing to be the next step in the evolution of scholarly publishing, or even...

Silverchair Launches ScholarOne Gateway to Transform the Researcher Experience in ScholarOne Manuscripts

Posted Dec 10, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) December 10, 2025 – Silverchair today announced the full commercial launch of ScholarOne Gateway, a modern interface that transforms how researchers engage with publishers throughout the submission and peer review process. Following a successful pilot...

Charlesworth Announces its WeChat Author Notification Service is now available to Scholar One Publishers

Posted Dec 9, 2025

London, UK – 11 December 2025 – Charlesworth, an Enago company and a leading provider of publishing marketing services, today announced that its award-winning Gateway service is to be fully...

Silverchair’s Approach to ADA Title II Web Accessibility Requirements

Posted Dec 3, 2025

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Title II web accessibility rule, finalized in April 2024, establishes WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the standard for state and local government web content. While...

Royal Society Publishing launches modernized digital library on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Dec 2, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) December 2, 2025 – Silverchair and Royal Society Publishing announced the launch of their new digital library on the Silverchair Platform. The new site is...

The Search Paradox: Why Your Most Valuable Feature Might Be Your Least Used

Posted Nov 21, 2025

In our recent Publisher Working Group session, we tackled a question that’s been nagging at all of us: why is on-site search usage so persistently low—and does it even matter? The numbers...

Navigating AI Bots: Insights from Our November Office Hours

Posted Nov 20, 2025

Finding the right balance between site security and content discovery is increasingly complex thanks to the growing omnipresence of AI bots. To help our clients stay informed, understand the evolving landscape,...

Canadian Science Publishing ramps up Open Data requirements

Posted Nov 17, 2025

This guest post is authored by Dryad, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. A conversation with Dr. Natasha McDonald, Director, Peer Review at Canadian Science Publishing When the non-profit...

How AI-powered editorial technology contributes to better research and more sustainable journals

Posted Nov 10, 2025

This guest post is authored by DataSeer, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Scholarly communications is in the midst of a crisis of confidence and capacity. On one side...

Program Increment 25.3 Retrospective

Posted Nov 5, 2025

In each Program Increment (PI), Silverchair’s teams enhance, improve, and grow the Silverchair Platform. We want to start taking a look back at the breadth of our progress and keep...

Reviewer Credits joins the Silverchair Universe to integrate reviewer recognition capabilities

Posted Nov 5, 2025

(Berlin, DE) – November 5, 2025 – Reviewer Credits, the Berlin-based network for peer reviewers and publishing integrity hub, is pleased to announce a new partnership with ScholarOne Manuscripts, a leading...

Fall Forum 2025 Recap: Workshop Discussions

Posted Nov 4, 2025

The workshop sessions at Fall Forum 2025 gave us space to tackle the challenges keeping publishers up at night. Over a period of collaborative problem-solving, clients explored everything from diversifying...

One Year In: ScholarOne & Silverchair’s Shared Journey Forward

Posted Nov 4, 2025

When we announced Silverchair’s acquisition of ScholarOne a year ago, I wrote about our belief that innovation and technology can help fulfill the greatest promise of scholarship. That vision wasn’t...

SEO & AI Search Update: Key Takeaways for Scholarly Publishers

Posted Nov 4, 2025

AI-powered search continues to reshape how researchers discover content, though the traffic impact remains minimal (less than 1% of total referrals). Publishers need to balance preparing for this shift while...

Building ScholarOne’s Next Chapter

Posted Oct 30, 2025

Over the past several months, we’ve been making substantial investments in ScholarOne’s infrastructure—the kind of foundational work that positions the platform for its next twenty-five years of evolution. While peer...

PS25 Recap: Breakout Room Discussions

Posted Oct 30, 2025

The breakout sessions at Platform Strategies 2025 revealed a scholarly publishing community grappling with transformation on multiple fronts. Whether discussing accessibility mandates, AI integration, or evolving business models, participants demonstrated...

PS25 Recap: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

Posted Oct 28, 2025

Anu Bradford, a professor at Columbia University and expert on digital regulation and the global economy, closed Platform Strategies 2025 with a keynote that reframed how we should understand the...

ScholarOne Summit 2025 Recap

Posted Oct 27, 2025

Since acquiring ScholarOne late last year, Silverchair has been hard at work expanding our extensive engagement approach to the S1 client community. Those efforts were showcased last month in the...

Maximizing Submissions Through Targeted Author Marketing

Posted Oct 24, 2025

The scholarly publishing landscape continues to evolve, with research output growing at unprecedented rates across all disciplines. In this increasingly crowded environment, reaching the right authors at the right time...

Fall 2025 Conference Recap: Perspectives from ALPSP, SSP New Directions, STM Frankfurt, & Frankfurt Book Fair

Posted Oct 24, 2025

Fall conference season brought scholarly publishers together across multiple continents to grapple with shared challenges around AI integration, research integrity, and the evolving relationship between science and society. From Manchester...

Fall Forum 2025 Recap

Posted Oct 23, 2025

Fall Forum brings together the Silverchair Platform client community for a full day dedicated to learning, collaboration, and charting the future of scholarly publishing. While the day featured plenty of...

PS25 Recap: Welcome to the Jungle: A Researcher’s Journey Through Existing Processes

Posted Oct 23, 2025

At Platform Strategies 2025, a conversation with researchers at different career stages revealed persistent challenges in scholarly publishing – from mounting financial pressures to systemic inefficiencies in peer review. The...

CSIRO Publishing Launches Unified Content Platform with Silverchair

Posted Oct 22, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) October 22, 2025 • CSIRO Publishing has announced the launch of its extensive content corpus on the Silverchair Platform. The new site, ConnectSci, brings together CSIRO Publishing’s ebook...

PS25 Recap: Strategic Frameworks for Balancing the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’ in Scholarly Publishing

Posted Oct 21, 2025

At Platform Strategies 2025, a panel discussion brought together leaders from diverse publishing models to explore how mission-driven organizations balance technological advancement with core values. The conversation, moderated by Emilie...

PS25 Recap: Publisher & Technology Readiness for the Future of Publishing

Posted Oct 16, 2025

At Platform Strategies 2025, Natalie Jacobs, Chief Product Officer at Emerald Publishing, opened the conference with a presentation that resonated deeply with the challenges facing scholarly publishers today. Rather than...

From Prototypes to Production: How Silverchair’s AI Lab Became a Client Innovation Engine

Posted Oct 14, 2025

Over the past 18 months, Silverchair’s AI Lab has evolved from experimental prototypes into a collaborative innovation engine focused on delivering real value across the scholarly publishing lifecycle. What started as...

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Client Services Year in Review

Posted Oct 9, 2025

As we fall into October and our tickets wind down for the end of the year (October usually marks the start of one of our slower periods), we’re sipping our...

Science Communication Toolkit

Posted Oct 8, 2025

At times it feels like the gap between groundbreaking research and public understanding has never been wider. As AI reshapes how audiences discover and consume scientific content, bridging this gap...

Four Years of Scholarly Publishing Tech Trends: What We’ve Learned

Posted Oct 8, 2025

For the past four years, Silverchair and Hum have collaborated with publishing leaders to track the shifting landscape of scholarly publishing technology. (View past reports here.) As we prepare for...

Silverchair Partners with Bioscientifica to Advance Hosting of Endocrinology Research

Posted Oct 6, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) October 6, 2025 – Silverchair today announced a new strategic partnership with Bioscientifica, a leading publisher of endocrinology and related medical journals. This collaboration will transition Bioscientifica’s journal portfolio to the Silverchair Platform, providing modern,...

Silverchairian Takeaways: Platform Strategies & 2025 Client Events

Posted Oct 3, 2025

Last week, Silverchair hosted three back-to-back events: Fall Forum (for Silverchair Platform clients), Platform Strategies (our exclusive industry event), and for the first time, ScholarOne Summit (for ScholarOne Manuscripts clients)....

Google’s AI Mode

Posted Sep 19, 2025

As the scholarly publishing landscape evolves with Google’s revolutionary AI Mode—powered by Gemini 2.5’s sophisticated query fan-out techniques and semantic understanding—publishers must strategically adapt to maximize their research impact in...

The Future of AI-Enhanced Peer Review

Posted Sep 17, 2025

Earlier this week, our CTO Stuart Leitch looked at how agentic AI systems are transitioning from optional tools to essential infrastructure. Below, I dig into the practical realities of this...

Recap: 2025 Peer Review Congress

Posted Sep 16, 2025

Silverchair was proud to be a silver sponsor of the 10th International Congress on Peer Review, held earlier this month in Chicago. The research-focused conference highlighted several critical challenges facing...

The Coming Inflection Point: AI as Science’s Gatekeeper

Posted Sep 15, 2025

As agentic AI systems mature, we’re approaching a critical juncture in scientific publishing. While these systems aren’t yet ready for widespread deployment in peer review and editorial decision-making, if current...

Fall Forum: Where Innovation Meets Community

Posted Sep 12, 2025

As I pack my suitcase for this year’s Fall Forum in Washington, D.C., I’m carefully placing that reusable magnetic wooden name tag from last year’s event right on top. It’s...

REPORT: 2025 Future of Peer Review

Posted Sep 3, 2025

We’re pleased to announce the first annual report on the Future of Peer Review. This comprehensive report explores trends in reviewer behavior, perceptions, and fatigue, while also imagining how AI and...

Silverchair Announces New Research Integrity Integrations via ScholarOne Relay

Posted Sep 2, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) September 4, 2025 – Silverchair has announced new research integrity integrations via partnerships with Cactus Communications, Clear Skies, Signals, and STM Integrity Hub, following the August 26th release...

Silverchair and ATIV Software Launch Updated MyItinerary Conference App Powered by Latest EventPilot® Platform

Posted Aug 28, 2025

Optimized mobile app supports scientific and medical meetings with advanced abstract integration and program navigation tools. (Charlottesville, VA) – August 27, 2025 –Silverchair and ATIV Software have released an updated...

“More right rudder”: Muscle memory meets scholarly publishing

Posted Aug 26, 2025

I’m in the left seat of a Cessna 172, applying full power with the throttle in my right hand, my left hand starting to apply back pressure on the yoke,...

MIS Quarterly Launches on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Aug 21, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) August 21, 2025 – Silverchair and MIS Quarterly (MISQ) today announced the launch of the journal on the Silverchair Platform (view the new site here). MIS Quarterly has...

Pass the Baton: How Customer Success Teams Win When Knowledge Flows

Posted Aug 18, 2025

Customer Success is a team sport, and we are running a relay. In a relay race, every runner matters, but so does the handoff. It is not enough to be...

What it Really Means to be Client-Led in Platform Development

Posted Aug 15, 2025

In the world of scholarly and professional publishing platforms, “community” claims have become standard marketing language. Many providers speak about feedback loops, advisory boards, and community engagement as proof of...

Building Face-to-Face Client Communities

Posted Aug 12, 2025

The Silverchair team is busy preparing for a 3-day extravaganza of events on September 24-26. Bookending our popular Platform Strategies conference are two client-exclusive events: the Silverchair Platform Fall Forum...

Program Increment 25.2 Retrospective

Posted Aug 6, 2025

In each Program Increment (PI), Silverchair’s teams enhance, improve, and grow the Silverchair Platform. We want to start taking a look back at the breadth of our progress, and keep...

Part 2: Strategies for AI Bot Management

Posted Aug 6, 2025

As we covered in part one of this series, today’s AI-driven security landscape is raising questions about site traffic, paywall protection, and concerns for a future that is still being...

Part 1: Impacts and Implications of AI Site Traffic

Posted Aug 5, 2025

As we’ve previously published (here, here, and here), AI bots are changing the discovery landscape. We have been engaged in ongoing conversations about the technical and strategic implications of these...

Content & Site Security Glossary

Posted Jul 31, 2025

We know that the rapidly changing landscape of AI bots and content security concerns is complex to navigate. With different types of bots, and different types of actions, it can...

Team Spotlight: Meet Silverchair’s Newest Sales Team Members

Posted Jul 30, 2025

Silverchair is thrilled to welcome two team members to the Silverchair business development team, Scott Bouchard (Director, Business Development) and Ryan Ross, (Solutions Engineer)! As we continue to grow and...

Silence and the Art of Shutting Up, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Silence

Posted Jul 25, 2025

I’m going to start with a disclaimer: I am an introvert writing about silence. That’s rich, I know. Have we ever experienced a noisier time? I don’t mean decibels but...

Forum at Home Recap: Revenue-driving brainstorms

Posted Jul 22, 2025

Silverchair’s Forum @ Home events are a great way for Platform clients to connect, share, and hear from our teams about how we’re approaching priorities for the publishing community. Our...

Emerald Publishing launches new Emerald Insight on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Jul 22, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA and Leeds, UK) July 22, 2025 – Silverchair and Emerald Publishing today announced the launch of the upgraded Emerald Insight, which prioritizes accessibility, sustainability, and an inclusive user...

Release Notes: Strategy, Collaboration, and Transparency

Posted Jul 21, 2025

As a product marketer, I spend much of my time thinking about how to communicate effectively with our clients. Sometimes that means finding the perfect balance between transparency and simplicity – ensuring...

Silverchair Goes Remote: A Farewell to “Old Reliable”

Posted Jul 18, 2025

Over the last five years, Silverchair has been transformed – by the pandemic, by growth, by expansion, and by the many ways our industry and world have likewise been transformed....

Content Security AMA Roundup

Posted Jul 16, 2025

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our “Ask Me Anything” session with our technology team, focused on content security, traffic flows, and AI bots. Protecting your site’s integrity, performance,...

Silverchair Transforms Author Experience with ScholarOne Gateway

Posted Jul 8, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) July 8, 2025 – Silverchair has launched the pilot of ScholarOne Gateway, a new centralized hub that will revolutionize the way authors interact with publishers during the submission...

ScholarOne the first 25 years: A retrospective

Posted Jul 7, 2025

ScholarOne is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Witnessing the remarkable growth of this exceptional product over the past quarter century has truly been a privilege. From our humble beginnings...

ASTM Digital Library Launches on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Jun 26, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA and West Conshohocken, PA) June 26, 2025 – Silverchair and ASTM International announced the launch of the enhanced ASTM Digital Library on the Silverchair Platform. ASTM International is...

The dive into Fathom: the future of Silverchair analytics

Posted Jun 26, 2025

This summer, we’re beta testing our newly evolved analytics offering with select publishers. The ability to offer analytics that are easy to use and navigate is a critical part of...

Navigating Reality in the Age of AI: A Scholarly Publishing Perspective

Posted Jun 24, 2025

The line between what’s real and what’s made up is getting blurrier every day. We’re living in a world where artificial intelligence (AI) can create videos and voices that are...

What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There: What Comes Next for Scholarly Conferences?

Posted Jun 18, 2025

If your annual conference looks and feels the same as it did in 2019, you’re not holding the line—you’re falling behind. The world has fundamentally changed, and if we don’t...

Enhanced Content Security Measures via Cloudflare: Silverchair’s Assessment

Posted Jun 18, 2025

We take our obligation to protect your valuable scholarly content very seriously. With the rapid proliferation of AI bot activity across all content on the internet, ensuring site security and...

Publisher Working Group recap: COUNTER data and business intelligence

Posted Jun 17, 2025

Our monthly Publisher Working Groups are an important gathering for the Product team. We love the opportunity to facilitate publisher-to-publisher problem-solving on shared challenges, to explore co-development projects, and receive...

SSP Shark Tank Recap: Investing in Scholarly Publishing

Posted Jun 16, 2025

At the SSP Annual Meeting in May, I moderated a session called “Scholarly Publishing Shark Tank: Where to Invest to Achieve Our Goals.” The session was conceived last Fall because...

How Platforms Need to Evolve and Adapt: Insights from SSP 2025

Posted Jun 13, 2025

Now that my inbox has fully recovered from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting, it’s time to look forward. Since the meeting, I’ve been mulling over my most important...

Webinar Recap: The Data Revolution, Part 2

Posted Jun 12, 2025

In an increasingly complex digital landscape, scholarly publishers are awakening to a long-known truth: data is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s a core strategic asset. But the journey from fragmented datasets...

Peer Review and Research Integrity as Defense Against Disinformation

Posted Jun 10, 2025

Does anyone else feel like it becomes harder and harder to trust the information we consume every day? From algorithm-driven news cycles to the blazing speed at which information (regardless...

Value & Values: Reflections on SSP 2025

Posted Jun 6, 2025

Last week, Silverchairians attended the Society for Scholarly Publishing meeting in Baltimore to meet with clients, engage with prospects, and showcase our products. The meeting also marked the formal debut...

Webinar Recap: The Data Revolution, Part 1

Posted Jun 5, 2025

In today’s publishing landscape, data isn’t just a buzzword — it’s the foundation upon which successful organizations build their competitive advantage. Our recent webinar, “The Data Revolution: Unlocking Value Across...

The Principles of Purpose-Driven Leadership: Staying Grounded in What Matters Most

Posted Jun 3, 2025

If recent history has taught us anything, it is that no organization—no matter how well-run or -resourced—is immune to disruption. In the face of unprecedented volatility for the scholarly publishing...

Silverchair & ScholarOne: A Match Made in History

Posted May 28, 2025

Silverchair & ScholarOne began their journeys in the same place, seven years apart: Charlottesville, Virginia. We trace our shared and complementary history in the timeline below. Silverchair’s acquisition of ScholarOne...

Silverchair Expands AI Playground to ScholarOne Manuscripts

Posted May 27, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) May 27, 2025 – Silverchair has announced the expansion of our successful AI Playground (first launched in May 2024) to ScholarOne Manuscripts. The ScholarOne AI Playground has been...

Silverchair Expands Integration Opportunities with ScholarOne Relay API

Posted May 22, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) May 22, 2025 – Silverchair has announced a new beta release of an API-driven solution for seamless two-way integrations in ScholarOne Manuscripts. ScholarOne Relay is a new API...

Cactus Communications and Silverchair collaborate to elevate research integrity and streamline editorial workflows

Posted May 20, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) May 20, 2025 – Silverchair has announced a strategic partnership with Cactus Communications (CACTUS), a leader in AI-powered solutions for the scholarly publishing ecosystem. This collaboration is focused...

Growing high-quality research communities in uncertain times

Posted May 19, 2025

A strong submission pipeline is the cornerstone of a sustainable publishing program, and paramount to this is the cultivation of a solid and growing author community. What is the most...

Platform Strategies 2025: Join Industry Leaders September 25th

Posted May 15, 2025

Platform Strategies is Silverchair’s exclusive industry event delivering opportunities for scholarly and professional publishing leaders to learn, network, and share their thoughts on the technology and strategy trends shaping the...

Clear Skies and Silverchair Partner to Integrate Papermill Detection and Journal Integrity Metrics into Peer Review Workflows

Posted May 13, 2025

May 13 2025 | London, UK & Charlottesville, VA – Clear Skies, the industry leader in papermill detection and integrity screening, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Silverchair...

From Newbie to Advocate: What I’ve Learned About Scholarly Publishing Since Joining Silverchair

Posted May 12, 2025

When I joined Silverchair in 2022 as a Customer Success Manager, I was completely new to the scholarly publishing world. I had over 15 years of experience in account management,...

The Power of Platforms

Posted May 12, 2025

As you’ve seen from our updates over the last few months, the Silverchair Platform community is expanding! We’re thrilled to welcome Emerald, MIS Quarterly, ACS Publications, CSIRO Publishing, The Royal...

Register for Fall Forum & Platform Strategies 2025!

Posted May 8, 2025

Registration for Silverchair’s Fall events is now open for clients! 2025 events include: Fall Forum (Wednesday, September 24th): The dedicated event for Silverchair Platform clients Platform Strategies (Thursday, September 25th):...

Register for ScholarOne Summit & Platform Strategies 2025!

Posted May 8, 2025

Tech Trends Deep Dive: Additional 2025 Publishing Predictions

Posted May 8, 2025

In the latest Publishing Tech Trends Report from Silverchair and Hum, sixteen leaders, consultants, and thinkers offered their predictions about what 2025 holds for the scholarly publishing community. Besides various...

Silverchair Launches AI-Powered Dynamic Discovery on the Silverchair Platform

Posted May 6, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) May 6, 2025 – Silverchair has announced the launch of Dynamic Discovery, a powerful AI discovery tool that transforms how researchers find relevant scholarly content. The innovative solution...

Program Increment 25.1 Retrospective

Posted May 1, 2025

In each Program Increment (PI), Silverchair’s teams enhance, improve, and grow the Silverchair Platform. We want to start taking a look back at the breadth of our progress, and keep...

Roadmap Updates: Looking Ahead for the Silverchair Platform

Posted Apr 30, 2025

We have an expression on the Product Team at Silverchair: always be roadmapping. There’s a lot of value to be found in robust, comprehensive and detailed plans, but we need...

The True Value of In-Person Meetings

Posted Apr 28, 2025

As I reflect on a 30 year-long career in publishing, what strikes me is that though our industry isn’t unique in that the keys to success are the relationships we...

Webinar Recap: Integrity by Design

Posted Apr 24, 2025

In an era of increasingly sophisticated research fraud and AI-enabled manipulation, the scholarly publishing industry is rallying to meet these challenges through strategic partnerships and technological innovation. During our recent...

Silverchair’s Evolution through the Lens of Employee #2

Posted Apr 17, 2025

As I approach 30 years at Silverchair this May, I’ve taken time to reflect on my publishing journey. When I joined Silverchair as the second employee and fifth person in...

Accessibility Resource Roundup

Posted Apr 15, 2025

Digital knowledge should be for everyone and with the European Accessibility Act going into effect this year, we’ve updated the Silverchair Platform and tools with new accessibility features that help...

Forum at Home Recap: All About Accessibility

Posted Apr 15, 2025

As the European Accessibility Act (EAA) approaches its June 2025 implementation date, Silverchair has developed a comprehensive strategy to support publishers in meeting accessibility requirements. Our Product team presented this...

AI Bots on Publisher Sites: Silverchair’s Approach to Content Security

Posted Apr 3, 2025

AI bot activity is on the rise across all content on the internet, and scholarly content is no exception. Many have expressed concerns over protecting their content and ensuring their...

Tech Trends Deep Dive: Compelling Use Cases for AI

Posted Apr 1, 2025

AI Overviews and Search Trends: Key Takeaways for SEO and PPC

Posted Mar 28, 2025

Silverchair’s SEO Consultant, Katherine Waier Ong owner of WO Strategies, recently shared some updates and news from the world of Search Engine Optimization. AI Overviews (AIOs) are reshaping search engine...

ScholarOne London User Group Recap

Posted Mar 27, 2025

Our first relaunched ScholarOne Manuscripts user group meeting was held earlier this month in London. We had a fun and productive half-day session with 18 delegates, followed by a drinks...

Enhancing Customer Success: A Unified Approach for Silverchair Platform & ScholarOne Clients

Posted Mar 27, 2025

Last November, when the ScholarOne and Silverchair teams merged, it meant that we benefited from many new colleagues joining our existing Customer Success (CSx) team, with a wealth of industry...

Enhancing Customer Success: A Unified Approach for Silverchair Platform & ScholarOne Clients

Posted Mar 27, 2025

Last November, when the ScholarOne and Silverchair teams merged, it meant that we benefited from many new colleagues joining our existing Customer Success (CSx) team, with a wealth of industry...

Evolving Publisher Working Groups for Greater Impact in 2025

Posted Mar 25, 2025

We know that Publisher Working Groups (PWGs) are a valued way for publishers to connect with each other, share insights, and influence Silverchair’s roadmap. That’s why we’re evolving the format...

Silverchair & Hum Announce Alchemist Review & ScholarOne Manuscripts Partnership

Posted Mar 25, 2025

Strategic Partnership Brings AI-Powered Peer Review Support for Publishers’ Submission Workflows (Charlottesville, VA) March 25, 2025 – Silverchair and Hum have announced a strategic partnership that integrates Hum’s recently launched...

Tech Trends Deep Dive: Biggest Opportunities for Leveraging Data in 2025

Posted Mar 24, 2025

The evolution of research integrity solutions in ScholarOne

Posted Mar 21, 2025

Scholarly publishing rests on three guiding principles: transparency, ethical research best practices, and rigorous peer review. These three principles are woven throughout the editorial process, ensuring that the research content...

Webinar Recap: Preparing for the European Accessibility Act

Posted Mar 18, 2025

As the June 2025 deadline for the European Accessibility Act (EAA) approaches, publishers across the scholarly ecosystem are working to ensure their content and platforms meet accessibility requirements. Silverchair recently...

Silverchair’s AI Lab Delivers Oxford Academic AI Discovery Assistant for Dynamic Research Support

Posted Mar 17, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) March 17, 2025 – Silverchair and Oxford University Press (OUP) announce the launch of Oxford Academic’s AI Discovery Assistant, delivered via the Silverchair Platform. Jointly developed by the...

The Association for Materials Protection and Performance Launches Unified Digital Library on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Mar 13, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA and Houston, TX) March 13, 2025 – Silverchair and the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) announced the launch of the new AMPP (content) Store on the...

COUNTER 5.1: What’s we’re seeing in the new reports

Posted Mar 12, 2025

Now that COUNTER 5.1 reports are live, we thought it would be helpful to walk you through some of the changes we’ve observed between COUNTER 5.1 and COUNTER 5.0. Since...

“Modernizing” ScholarOne: Strategies for Sustainability

Posted Mar 11, 2025

When we acquired ScholarOne Manuscripts, we knew the power and potential of the platform to transform the experience of scholarly publishing. We also knew the intense pressure ScholarOne is under...

ASTM International Selects Silverchair to Host ASTM Digital Library

Posted Mar 11, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA and West Conshohocken, PA) March 11, 2025 – Silverchair announced today a new partnership with ASTM International, an internationally recognized leader in engineering standards and technical publications, to...

CLOCKSS joins the Silverchair Universe

Posted Mar 6, 2025

The following is a guest post from Gali Halevi at CLOCKSS, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. To learn more about the program, our partners, and how to get...

Preparing for the European Accessibility Act: Updates to Zipline and how to prepare

Posted Mar 3, 2025

At Silverchair, we are committed to continually refining our tools to support publishers in delivering high-quality, accessible content, as well as evolving the platform to meet industry standards and support...

Silverchair Pilots Research Integrity Solutions in ScholarOne Workflows via Signals Partnership

Posted Mar 3, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) March 3, 2025 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with Signals to add novel research integrity checks in the ScholarOne Manuscripts workflow. Through this partnership, Silverchair is integrating...

Royal Society Publishing selects the Silverchair Platform for modernized digital library

Posted Feb 27, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) February 27, 2025 – Silverchair announced today a new partnership with Royal Society Publishing to host their prestigious publications on the Silverchair Platform. Royal Society...

Energizing the ScholarOne Publisher Community

Posted Feb 25, 2025

It’s not just a cliché: we really are stronger together. We knew when we welcomed ScholarOne publishers into our community that we had a wealth of opportunities to grow and...

Forum @ Home: Discover Love with your Platform Recap

Posted Feb 24, 2025

To kick off our virtual event series for Silverchair Platform clients, we held a matchmaking event to find common interests on key platform priorities. Who knows what changes will send...

ACS Publications Partners with Silverchair for Next-Generation Delivery Platform

Posted Feb 19, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA and Washington, DC) February 19, 2025 – Silverchair today announced a partnership with the Publications division of the American Chemical Society (ACS Publications) to develop a new content...

Tech Trends Deep Dive: Digital Content Challenges

Posted Feb 14, 2025

Delivery Improvements 2025

Posted Feb 13, 2025

At the start of 2024, we set out to enhance the way we engage with and deliver for our clients. The vision was clear: embed the client perspective into our...

MIS Quarterly Partners with Silverchair

Posted Feb 12, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) February 12, 2025 – Silverchair announced today a new partnership to host the MIS Quarterly journal on the Silverchair Platform. MIS Quarterly has been partnered with Silverchair’s ScholarOne...

2025 Platform Strategies Webinar Series

Posted Feb 10, 2025

Silverchair’s free spring webinar series is entering its sixth year, attracting hundreds of attendees interested in exploring the technologies and strategies that support professional and scholarly knowledge. This year, inspired...

Strategic Partnerships in Action

Posted Feb 5, 2025

In April of 2024, I took on the newly created role of VP of Strategic Partnerships in order to invest in and expand upon Silverchair’s strategic relationships with clients, prospects,...

Silverchair Expands Universe Program to Accelerate Platform Integration & Innovation

Posted Feb 4, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) February 4, 2025 – Silverchair announced today the expansion of its renowned Silverchair Universe partner program, which now includes ScholarOne partnerships. Originally launched in 2017 as a framework...

ScholarOne Manuscript’s 2025 Product Vision

Posted Jan 30, 2025

Since joining Silverchair in late 2024, the ScholarOne teams have been hard at work strategizing and planning for the future of the Manuscripts and Conferences products. With a powerful combination...

Program Increment 24.4 Retrospective

Posted Jan 30, 2025

In each Program Increment (PI), Silverchair’s teams enhance, improve, and grow the Silverchair Platform. We want to start taking a look back at the breadth of our progress, and keep...

Accessibility Next Steps

Posted Jan 30, 2025

The following is meant to be a helpful guide for you in advance of the European Accessibility Act (EAA). That being said, all Publishers should consult their own counsel to ensure they’re...

The Importance of the Unseen: Content Stamping & Architecture

Posted Jan 29, 2025

At Silverchair, we’re always focusing on ways to continuously improve our Platform, our tools, and the experience of our clients using our technology on a day-to-day basis. On the Architecture...

David Nygren Joins Silverchair as Chief Business Development Officer to Drive Global Expansion

Posted Jan 28, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA) January 28, 2025 – Silverchair announced today that David Nygren will join the company as Chief Business Development Officer. Nygren last worked at Wolters Kluwer where he was responsible for...

Recent Search Engine Optimization News

Posted Jan 27, 2025

Silverchair’s SEO consultant, Katherine Waier Ong owner of WO Strategies, recently shared some updates and news from the world of Search Engine Optimization. We work with Katherine to help bridge...

What’s Next for the Silverchair Platform in 2025?

Posted Jan 23, 2025

2025 is here, and with it, we’ve got big plans for the Silverchair Platform. Scholarly publishing technology is getting more efficient, user-friendly, and interoperable every year, and we’re excited to...

The Best Kind of Culture Shock: Integrating ScholarOne & Silverchair

Posted Jan 22, 2025

Silverchair’s culture remains its most distinctive competitive differentiator. I have been asserting that for years – and it remains true now, more than ever, in the wake of our acquisition...

Announcing our 2025 Forum @ Home Webinar Series

Posted Jan 21, 2025

Silverchair’s client webinars are a great opportunity to share our product roadmap, to swap insights and ideas on solving shared pain points, and to hear from you about your priorities...

Tech Trends Deep Dive: Revenue Opportunities

Posted Jan 21, 2025

The X Factor: Silverchair’s Social Future

Posted Jan 16, 2025

In the category of bandwagons, tides, and tipping points, Silverchair is shuttering our organizational accounts on X and Facebook, focusing on engaging our communities via channels that better align with...

2024 Silverchair Retrospective

Posted Jan 14, 2025

2024 was a big year for Silverchair, with the launches of the AI Lab and Sensus Impact, as well as the acquisition of ScholarOne. Our community grew, our platform &...

Emerald Publishing Partners with Silverchair

Posted Jan 9, 2025

(Charlottesville, VA and Leeds, UK) January 9, 2025 – Silverchair and Emerald Publishing today announced a new partnership to host Emerald’s extensive publishing program on the Silverchair Platform, launching in...

REPORT: 2025 Publishing Tech Trends

Posted Jan 8, 2025

In the fourth annual report on publishing technology trends from Silverchair & Hum, sixteen publishing leaders and consultants weigh in on their predictions for 2025 and beyond. (Revisit the 2024...

COUNTER 5.1: FAQs for the New Year

Posted Dec 19, 2024

The questions below are a collection of inquiries from publishers, librarians, and Silverchair. The answers have been sourced from COUNTER 5.1 documentation or directly from Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director of...

CSIRO Publishing Selects Silverchair

Posted Dec 17, 2024

(Charlottesville, VA) December 17, 2024 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with CSIRO Publishing to host their rich repository of over 120,000 articles and extensive book collection. CSIRO Publishing is...

Expanding the impact narrative to include transparent research practices

Posted Dec 12, 2024

This blog originally published on STM Publishing News, and is co-authored by Lindsay Morton, Adrian Stanley, and Tim Vines at DataSeer. Defining the true impact of research is an elusive...

Fall Forum Recap: Ways of Working

Posted Dec 11, 2024

The team at Silverchair shared significant developments on how we collaborate with publishers, emphasizing transparency, efficiency, and strategic partnership. This session at Fall Forum shared key improvements to project delivery,...

Enhancing Accessibility: From ScholarOne to the Next Generation

Posted Dec 11, 2024

In recent years, accessibility has become a critical aspect of digital product design and development, becoming a mandate in our industry and beyond. For us at the ScholarOne Product team,...

Navigating the Future of Data Management: The Imperative of Data Retention Policies

Posted Dec 10, 2024

As we sail through the digital age, the data we generate has become one of the most valuable assets at our disposal. The scholarly publishing community is no exception, with...

The “New” Silverchair: Brand Updates & New Logos

Posted Dec 9, 2024

Silverchair’s recent acquisition of ScholarOne presented an exciting opportunity for the Silverchair Marketing team to update our branding and introduce new logos to our family of products. ScholarOne was previously...

Fall Forum Recap: Client Innovation Showcase

Posted Dec 9, 2024

We always love hearing from publishers in our client community about what they’re experimenting with and piloting on the Silverchair Platform. Our clients face industry challenges with ingenuity and adaptability....

Integrating for Innovation: Silverchair’s Vision for ScholarOne

Posted Dec 5, 2024

At Silverchair, we believe that innovation and technology can help fulfill the greatest promise of scholarship. This is our vision, and everything we do is in service of the scholarly...

Fall Forum Recap: Platform Roadmap and Beyond

Posted Dec 3, 2024

In this insightful session, Product Manager Emily Hazzard and VP of Product Sven Molter reviewed 2024’s progress and shared a glimpse into the future of the Silverchair Platform, which includes...

PS 2024: The Trough of AI Disillusionment: What Have We Learned?

Posted Dec 2, 2024

In September, Silverchair hosted Platform Strategies 2024 in Washington, DC, which attracted 150+ thought leaders and decision-makers from across our industry for an engaging day of discussions and networking. The...

Fall Forum Recap: Opening Conversation

Posted Nov 26, 2024

At our 2024 Fall Forum, Silverchair’s exclusive, in-person client event where collaboration, innovation, and forward-thinking discussions are encouraged, Emilie Delquié, Silverchair’s Chief Product & Customer Success Officer, and Will Schweitzer,...

PS 2024: What’s Your Strategy If There Is No Platform?

Posted Nov 21, 2024

PS 2024: Who Invests in Innovation?

Posted Nov 20, 2024

The question of funding lies at the heart of scholarly publishing. As the industry evolves, critical questions emerge: Who funds open access publishing? Who invests in infrastructure and innovation? And...

Agentic Frameworks: Observations from the Silverchair AI Lab

Posted Nov 8, 2024

Silverchair’s AI Lab is our home for experimentation and education in partnership with our community. It not only offers a flexible space where we can bring prototypes to our clients...

PS 2024: The Polarity Between Transformative Vision & Practical Traction

Posted Nov 6, 2024

In September, Platform Strategies 2024 in Washington, DC opened with a keynote featuring Alix Vance, CEO and President of AIP Publishing, and Sara Rouhi, Director of Open Science and Publishing...

Program Increment 24.3 Retrospective

Posted Nov 6, 2024

In each Program Increment (PI), Silverchair’s teams enhance, improve, and grow the Silverchair Platform. We want to start taking a look back at the breadth of our progress, and keep...

Fall Forum Recap: Platform Priority Workshops

Posted Oct 30, 2024

At last month’s Fall Forum, we ran a series of workshops on some of the top priorities for platform health today: accessibility, SEO & Google, data protection & privacy, and...

FAQs regarding Silverchair’s Acquisition of ScholarOne

Posted Oct 28, 2024

We are excited to announce that Silverchair has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ScholarOne Manuscripts and ScholarOne Conferences from Clarivate today. With this expansion, Silverchair will continue to serve...

Silverchair to Acquire ScholarOne from Clarivate to Expand Investment & Innovation in Critical Publishing Technology

Posted Oct 28, 2024

The Combined Entity Will Offer Unparalleled Services & Independent Partnership to the Publishing Community (Charlottesville, VA) October 28, 2024 – Silverchair, the leading independent hosting platform partner for scholarly and...

Assessing Real-World ROI: Tracing the True Value of Open Access Publishing

Posted Oct 17, 2024

At the 2024 OASPA conference, I moderated a panel session titled “Assessing Real-World ROI: Tracing the True Value of Open Access Publishing,” which brought together a diverse group of industry...

Platform Strategies 2024: Attendee Reflections

Posted Oct 14, 2024

Last month, Silverchair hosted Platform Strategies 2024 in Washington, DC. As in past years, the event was well received by attendees, who engaged with speakers and fellow attendees on some...

Security Considerations for Using URL-Changing Proxies in Academic Institutions

Posted Oct 8, 2024

As a technology platform provider, we prioritize ensuring the security and integrity of our services. With our migration to CloudFlare, we’ve improved our overall security posture, however, we’ve also encountered...

The Complexity of Multi-Tenant Platforms

Posted Oct 8, 2024

As a technology provider, a key element of building strong partnerships is navigating what we call the Zone of Dramatic Complexity. This refers to the polarity we must manage when...

Platform Strategies 2024: Silverchairian Reflections

Posted Oct 4, 2024

Last week, Silverchair hosted Platform Strategies 2024 in Washington, DC. The event was filled with inspiring conversations, thoughtful presentations, and AI photo booth shenanigans. In the coming weeks, we’ll be...

The ABCs and Whys of “Containerless” Content

Posted Sep 19, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, there are new types of content emerging every day. Publishers need flexibility in their platform to bring together a wide variety of content types in a...

A Customer-Centric Culture in Action

Posted Sep 16, 2024

Looking back at my first year at Silverchair, I can’t help but be impressed by my colleagues and by the organization’s true culture of dedication to our clients. Silverchair’s commitment...

Taxonomy 101: The Hidden Structures Powering Content Discovery

Posted Sep 11, 2024

The world of content discovery is rapidly evolving, as LLMs and RAG frameworks change how users find and engage with information. It is easy to overlook the back-end mechanisms that...

Cultivating Innovation: The Key to Sustained Growth

Posted Sep 10, 2024

With all the changes taking place in scholarly publishing and the world at large, innovation is not just a buzzword—it’s a necessity. Organizations that fail to innovate risk stagnation and...

The Silverchair Platform: Flexible & Open

Posted Sep 4, 2024

The Open Access movement has transformed publishing over the last couple decades since the Budapest Open Access Initiative, even more markedly so in the last 6 years since Plan S....

Preparing for the European Accessibility Act: Recommendations for Publishers

Posted Aug 28, 2024

By June 2025, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) will be implemented, impacting member states and companies interacting with EU citizens by mandating adherence to specific accessibility standards. This act is aimed at...

Preparing for the European Accessibility Act: Recommendations for Publishers

Posted Aug 28, 2024

Silverchair Fall Conference Preview

Posted Aug 27, 2024

Seemingly out of nowhere the sun is setting sooner, it’s all back-to-school pics on social media, and cinnamon pinecones are popping up at the entrances to our supermarkets. There’s no...

The Evolution of AI at Silverchair

Posted Aug 20, 2024

Throughout my tenure at Silverchair, I’ve worked on numerous sites, clients, and use cases. While I had prior experience in machine learning before my time at Silverchair, my focus within...

Take Full Control of Your Events with Cadmore Media’s Integrated Live Events Platform

Posted Aug 20, 2024

The following is a guest blog from Silverchair Universe partner Cadmore Media. As a trusted Silverchair Universe partner, Cadmore Media is proud to be a preferred technology provider for audio...

Forum @ Home: AI Lab 6 Months Later Recap

Posted Aug 2, 2024

On July 25, we held a Forum @ Home webinar to walk our client community through how our AI strategy is evolving, and what we’re learning from all of you....

Program Increment 24.2 Retrospective

Posted Aug 2, 2024

In each Program Increment (PI), Silverchair’s teams enhance, improve, and grow the Silverchair Platform. We want to start taking a look back at the breadth of our progress, and keep...

CrowdStrike: Silverchair’s Incident Response in Action

Posted Aug 1, 2024

On July 19th, 2024 at 12:09am EST, security technology provider CrowdStrike released an update that triggered crashes worldwide, causing the “blue screen of death” (BSOD) and disrupting travel, healthcare, and...

The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Launches Game-Changing Education Product on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Aug 1, 2024

(Charlottesville, VA, and Alexandria, VA) August 1, 2024 – Silverchair and the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) announced the launch of the Otolaryngology Core Curriculum (OCC),...

The AI Lab: Six Months Later

Posted Jul 30, 2024

At the start of this year, Silverchair launched the AI Lab as a home for experimentation in partnership with our client community. As our CTO Stuart Leitch said at the...

Fall Forum 2024: Agenda

Posted Jul 25, 2024

We hope everyone is getting excited to share ideas and ask questions at our Fall Forum on Tuesday, September 24, in Washington DC. Our working agenda is below, and as...

When are AI Products Good Enough to Release?

Posted Jul 23, 2024

In a new video, Silverchair CTO Stuart Leitch offers a recap of the talk he gave at last month’s Platform Strategies Satellite Event on AI in Berlin. He was joined...

July 2024 AI Reading list

Posted Jul 22, 2024

As the world experiments, innovates, and legislates around AI, we have gathered a reading list from the last few months, part of a continuing series. For more AI news, subscribe...

REPORT: The Existential Crisis of Research Impact

Posted Jul 18, 2024

Today’s research impact ecosystem is a balancing act of stakeholder priorities, evolving practices, and measurement challenges. In this report you’ll find: Explorations on impact definitions for different stakeholders Connections between...

Sensus Impact: Four-month checkup

Posted Jun 27, 2024

It’s been over four months since the launch of our newest product, Sensus Impact. When I think about the effort evolved in conceiving and developing Sensus, and the care and...

Silverchair Expands Multimedia Offerings with Cadmore Media, Enhancing User Experience Across Client Sites

Posted Jun 24, 2024

(Charlottesville, VA and Bethesda, MD) June 25, 2024 – Silverchair, the leading independent platform provider for professional and scholarly publishers, has made Cadmore Media their preferred video provider. Cadmore is...

Content Marketing in the Age of AI

Posted Jun 24, 2024

At the AUPresses Annual Meeting in Montreal earlier this month, I moderated a panel of thought leaders bringing a variety of perspectives (author, university press, technology provider). The group discussed...

Google AI Overviews: Implications & Options

Posted Jun 17, 2024

With Google’s recent rollout of AI Overviews, we’re shining a spotlight on the vital connections between our platform, Google, and Google Scholar, while also exploring what AI Overviews might bring...

Predicting the Future of Publishing Technology

Posted Jun 14, 2024

Is the future truly unknowable? What elements of today’s technology trends will continue into the future? In the 2024 Publishing Tech Trends report from Silverchair and Hum, we talk about...

SSP 2024 Retrospective: From Inflection Points to GOATs

Posted Jun 10, 2024

This year’s Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts had the theme, “Inflection Point: Setting the Course for the Future of Scholarly Communication,” and it certainly felt like...

Silverchair Achieves ISO Certification

Posted Jun 10, 2024

Silverchair is pleased to announce that the Silverchair Platform has achieved ISO 27001 certification, an important milestone in our commitment to information security. This certification is an internationally recognized standard...

The Other AI: A Reading List on Human Intelligence

Posted May 28, 2024

At the 2024 Society for Scholarly Publishing annual meeting in Boston, I moderated a session titled, “The Other AI: The Role of Actual Intelligence In the Future of Scholarly Publishing,”...

Emerging Technology Trends in 2024

Posted May 28, 2024

In 2024, technology and partnership will go hand in hand. Publishers are building relationships with technology partners to meet the challenges with efficiency, author experience, and applications of AI. In...

SSP Plane, Train, and Automobile Reads

Posted May 21, 2024

Many of the Silverchair team are making their way to Boston for the Society of Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting. Take a look at what reading material they’ve packed in their...

Platform Strategies 2024: Join Industry Leaders September 25th

Posted May 14, 2024

PLATFORM STRATEGIES delivers opportunities for scholarly and professional publishing leaders to learn, network, and share their thoughts on the technology and strategy trends shaping the industry. Bringing together case studies, innovators...

SSP 2024: Mapping the Future Together

Posted May 13, 2024

This year’s Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting will take place in Boston, Massachusetts May 29-31 with the theme, “Inflection Point: Setting the Course for the Future of Scholarly Communication.”...

Ask the Team (part 2): AI in Scholarly Publishing

Posted May 10, 2024

In part two of our interview series, we dove a little deeper with our teams about AI in scholarly publishing contexts. Where do these Silverchairians think the next breakthrough will...

Ask the Team (part 1): Developing AI Products

Posted May 9, 2024

At Silverchair, we’re committed to the transparent experimentation of AI applications. All of our teams have immersed themselves in learning about the potentials and the pitfalls of these technologies, so...

Silverchair Releases New AI Playground for Safe & Transparent Experimentation

Posted May 7, 2024

(Charlottesville, VA) May 7, 2024 – Silverchair announced the release of a new AI Playground, the latest from the Silverchair AI Lab, which launched earlier this year with three active...

Introducing the AI Playground

Posted May 7, 2024

As previewed in last month’s State of Silverchair presentation, we are delighted to open the AI Playground to clients. The AI Lab was designed as a space to transparently experiment...

Program Increment 24.1 Retrospective

Posted May 3, 2024

In each Program Increment (PI), Silverchair’s teams enhance, improve, and grow the Silverchair Platform. We want to start taking a look back at the breadth of our progress, and keep...

Fall Forum Registration is Now Open!

Posted May 3, 2024

Silverchair’s Fall Forum is back in person this year. It will take place on September 24 (the day before Platform Strategies) in Washington, DC. We have officially opened up Client...

April 2024 State of Silverchair Recap: AI Lab

Posted Apr 30, 2024

This blog was adapted from the State of Silverchair webinar, which kicked off the 2024 Forum @ Home series. You can watch the recording here or register for future events...

MEET OUR LEADERS: Sven Molter

Posted Apr 24, 2024

Sven Molter joined Silverchair earlier this month, working closely with clients and internal teams to craft the vision for Silverchair’s products. Below, we asked about his path to Silverchair, AI,...

REPORT: 2024 AI A to Z Primer

Posted Apr 22, 2024

As part of our AI Lab Reports webinar series, we’ve produced an AI primer to help build a shared foundation on AI terms and themes for the scholarly publishing community....

IPv6: What it is and why it matters

Posted Apr 18, 2024

In order to ensure a better experience and seamless access to our platforms, we are excited to announce that Silverchair now supports IPv6 – the latest version of the Internet...

Purpose & Adaptability in Work & Life

Posted Apr 17, 2024

As we shared earlier this year, Silverchair recently added a fifth core value: “Innovate with Purpose and Adaptability.” This value recognizes the accelerated pace of change that our industry and...

April 2024 AI Reading Roundup

Posted Apr 11, 2024

As the world experiments, innovates, and legislates around AI, we have gathered a reading list from the last month, part of a new monthly series. Scholarly Publishing Reporting Use of...

Lightning Strikes Twice: Key Takeaways from Recent Conferences

Posted Apr 4, 2024

Since 2020, time has become a truly incomprehensible thing. Suddenly, we find ourselves in the second quarter of 2024, and while on one hand it seems to have gone by...

Silverchair Expands Product & Strategic Partnerships

Posted Apr 2, 2024

Sven Molter Joins Silverchair as VP of Product (Charlottesville, VA) April 2, 2024 – Silverchair announced the expansion of its Product team with the addition of Sven Molter as VP...

Back to Basics? Content Delivery Shifts in 2024

Posted Mar 26, 2024

The last decade has seen a proliferation of research delivery channels and a diffusion of content via increasingly diverse means. The rise of aggregators, video abstracts, lay summaries, and now...

Announcing the 2024 AI Lab Reports Series

Posted Mar 21, 2024

Silverchair’s free spring webinar series has grown over the last four years to reach hundreds of attendees interested in exploring the technologies and strategies that support professional and scholarly knowledge....

March 2024 AI Reading Roundup

Posted Mar 14, 2024

As the world experiments, innovates, and legislates around AI, we have gathered a reading list from the last month, part of a new monthly series. Scholarly Publishing Could AI Disrupt...

Sensus Impact 101: Everything you need to know

Posted Mar 7, 2024

Sensus Impact launched on Wednesday, February 14 (a little Valentine’s treat for the scholarly publishing community). This launch was exciting not only because of the clear need it filled in...

Ancient AI: Can the history of artificial intelligence inform our future?

Posted Mar 4, 2024

The AI explosion of the last eighteen months can feel as though it came out of the blue, but the central ideas of artificial intelligence are centuries older than we...

New Formats & AI Support: 2024 Content Priority Shifts

Posted Feb 29, 2024

Publishers fulfill a wide variety of needs (which is part of what makes this Scholarly Kitchen article listing the 100+ things publishers do an evergreen reference point), but ultimately, scholarly...

Cloudflare: Ensuring Superior Protection with Silverchair

Posted Feb 27, 2024

At Silverchair, we’re proud of our status as the leading independent platform partner serving the needs of scholarly and professional publishers. We’ve built our reputation on providing flexible technology solutions...

February 2024 AI Reading Roundup

Posted Feb 23, 2024

As the world experiments, innovates, and legislates around AI, we have gathered a reading list from the last month, part of a new monthly series. (Read the last issue here.)...

Remember the Agile Manifesto? Creating Space for Individuals & Interactions

Posted Feb 21, 2024

It’s been a while since the Agile Manifesto has been at the forefront of our industry’s collective mind. For those unfamiliar, the Agile Manifesto prioritizes individuals, collaboration, and flexibility in...

Universe Spotlight: Smart Citations: The Next Generation of Citations

Posted Feb 16, 2024

The following is a guest blog post from scite, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. At scite we have been working for over five years to bring forward the...

Silverchair Analytics Rebuild Update

Posted Feb 15, 2024

In recent weeks, our Customer Success team has been in touch with clients with an update about our Analytics Rebuild project. Below, we share a recap of that update. As...

Sensus Impact: a new industry initiative to revolutionize research reporting

Posted Feb 14, 2024

In an industry-first, funders, publishers and authors will have unrivaled access to funded research impact data as a result of community-led initiative, Sensus Impact. (Oxford, England & Charlottesville, Virginia – 14...

Building Back Stronger: Organizational and Career Resilience Demystified

Posted Feb 5, 2024

In December, I had the honor of presenting to the SSP Journals Academy on the subject of organizational and career resilience. In the face of economic uncertainty and disruptive forces...

How AI Will Transform Scholarly Publishing

Posted Feb 1, 2024

It’s impossible to write a report on trends in any industry and not mention AI. The recent acceleration of both its availability and its capabilities means it has potential applications...

Silverchair’s AI Lab Launches Prototypes to Transform Science Communication

Posted Jan 29, 2024

(Charlottesville, VA – January 29, 2024) Silverchair announces the launch of the new AI Lab with several AI-powered features: a content discovery and recommendation tool that creates new ways for...

Introducing the Silverchair AI Lab

Posted Jan 25, 2024

AI is transforming our industry; the only question is how. We have spoken with many of you about your AI priorities and transformation goals, and time and again we heard...

AI-Generated Summary FAQs

Posted Jan 25, 2024

AI-Generated Summaries (beta) are being piloted with select Theme clients as part of the Silverchair AI Lab. Learn more about them below, and if you’re interested in being involved, email...

2023 Publisher Working Groups, + 2024 Preview

Posted Jan 23, 2024

As we usher in 2024, we want to take a moment to reflect on the progress and insights garnered from our 2023 Publisher Working Groups and share our plans for...

2023 Publisher Working Groups, + 2024 Preview

Posted Jan 23, 2024

As we usher in 2024, we want to take a moment to reflect on the progress and insights garnered from our 2023 Publisher Working Groups and share our plans for...

Chess, Go, and the Tipping Point of AI

Posted Jan 22, 2024

This blog is based on an excerpt from the 2023 Platform Strategies opening keynote, which may be viewed in full here. It’s no secret that there are numerous areas where...

2023 Client Project Spotlight

Posted Jan 18, 2024

In addition to the features and functionality rolled out by our Platform & Product teams, our development teams also delivered many mission-critical customizations for publishers. Below are some highlights. AAOS:...

Silverchair Product: 2023 Retro & 2024 Preview

Posted Jan 18, 2024

Silverchair releases new features and functionality to the platform every three weeks, meaning a constant cycle of improvements. Since the start of a new year offers a great opportunity to...

January 2024 AI Reading Roundup

Posted Jan 16, 2024

As the world experiments, innovates, and legislates around AI, we have gathered a reading list from the last month, the fifth in a new monthly series. (Read the last issue...

2024 Tech Trends: Be fast followers & make small bets

Posted Jan 16, 2024

Last week, Silverchair & Hum released the third annual Publishing Tech Trends report, which brings together insights and predictions from 17 industry leaders on what 2024 will hold for scholarly...

2023 Silverchair Retrospective

Posted Jan 11, 2024

2023 was the year of AI everything. But as we experimented, learned, and debated as a company and an industry, Silverchair was also hard at work maintaining the high levels...

REPORT: 2024 Publishing Tech Trends

Posted Jan 9, 2024

In the third annual report on publishing technology trends from Silverchair & Hum, a panel of 17 publishing leaders and consultants weigh in on their predictions for 2024 and beyond....

The Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) Partners with Silverchair for Unified Digital Library

Posted Jan 8, 2024

(Charlottesville, VA) January 8, 2024 – Silverchair announced today a new partnership with The Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP), the world’s leading organization dedicated to the protection of...

Innovate with Purpose & Adaptability: Silverchair’s New Core Value

Posted Jan 3, 2024

2023 was a watershed year in many ways. Over the course of that year, AI has begun to transform every area of our lives, and the change doesn’t seem to...

December AI Reading Roundup

Posted Dec 18, 2023

As the world experiments, innovates, and legislates around AI, we have gathered a reading list from the last month, the fourth in a new monthly series. (Read the last issue...

Inside the AI Transformation Team

Posted Dec 14, 2023

Earlier this year, recognizing the accelerating need for learning and applying artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), Silverchair formed an AI Transformation Team, which I lead in partnership...

Platform Strategies 2023 Recap: Breakout Sessions

Posted Dec 5, 2023

Platform Strategies offered attendees a variety of formats in which to engage with content and with each other: keynote talks, panel discussions, in-app polls, Q&A, networking breaks, and topical breakout...

November AI Reading Roundup

Posted Dec 1, 2023

As the world experiments, innovates, and legislates around AI, we have gathered a reading list from the last month, the fourth in a new monthly series. (Read the last issue...

State of Silverchair: Product & Platform

Posted Nov 30, 2023

In Silverchair’s 2023 Forum at Home Series Finale, the State of Silverchair, we shared updates from our Product and Platform teams, as well an insights on security and client services....

Platform Strategies 2023: Shifts in Scholarly Publishing

Posted Nov 30, 2023

At the 2023 Platform Strategies event, we posed the question to our attendees: “What do you anticipate to be the biggest shift in scholarly publishing in the coming year?” Unsurprisingly,...

State of Silverchair: AI Progress

Posted Nov 29, 2023

In Silverchair’s 2023 Forum at Home Series Finale, the State of Silverchair, our AI team shared Silverchair’s commitment to incorporating AI across our organization and showcased prototypes developed by the...

State of Silverchair: Commitment to 2023 Community Feedback

Posted Nov 28, 2023

In Silverchair’s 2023 Forum at Home Series Finale, the State of Silverchair, our Customer Success (CSX) team shared the results of the 2023 Client Satisfaction Survey, noting trends and areas...

The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Selects Silverchair to Host Game-Changing Education Product

Posted Nov 28, 2023

(Charlottesville, VA, and Alexandria, VA) November 28, 2023 – Silverchair and the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) announced a new partnership to develop a medical education...

Zipline Catalog Page User Filter: A Eulogy

Posted Nov 21, 2023

As part of our commitment to continually enhance your experience, we’re always looking for ways to make strategic adjustments to the platform that align with our vision for a more...

Platform Strategies Recap: Stable but Unsustainable

Posted Nov 20, 2023

What are the primary challenges and concerns of leaders for a scholarly publishing organization in the current era? This roundtable discussion gathers some of our industry’s leaders to discuss how...

Meet our Leaders: Emilie Delquié

Posted Nov 16, 2023

Emilie Delquié joined Silverchair full time in September, working closely with clients through a variety of events and other engagements. Below we asked about what themes she has seen in...

The American Medical Association Partners with Silverchair for More Services & Support

Posted Nov 14, 2023

(Charlottesville, VA and Chicago, IL) November 14, 2023 – Silverchair and the American Medical Association (AMA) announced today that they have further expanded their partnership on the JAMA Network. The expanded...

Upskilling for an AI-Integrated Workforce

Posted Nov 14, 2023

Like organizations everywhere, Silverchair is feverishly processing the changes the advent of generative AI technology has brought. In recent months, we’ve created a dedicated AI development team that is rapid...

Introducing Standalone Multimedia

Posted Nov 10, 2023

As the publishing ecosystem changes, what we consider a first-class publication object is no longer limited to journal articles, issues, proceedings, books, and chapters. About Standalone Multimedia Standalone Multimedia (SAMM)...

Silverchair Appoints Jon Meadows SVP of Technology

Posted Nov 10, 2023

(Charlottesville, VA) November 10, 2023 – Silverchair has announced the promotion of Jon Meadows to the position of Senior Vice President, Technology. In his new role, Meadows will also join...

Platform Strategies Recap: Coopetition

Posted Nov 10, 2023

This panel discussion showcased both established and emerging collaboratives and engages in a conversation about the challenges faced by independents, the consequences to the scholarly ecosystem if these audiences are...

The Crossroads of AI Web Crawling & Academic Publishing

Posted Nov 7, 2023

ChatGPT’s ability to aggregate and generate text-based on a vast array of online content represents a double-edged sword for academic publishers. While it holds the potential to exponentially increase the...

Platform Strategies Recap: Digital to Data

Posted Nov 6, 2023

Open access policies, industry mergers, and data privacy policies have drastically changed the landscape for marketers in publishing and beyond. Today’s marketers have had to nimbly pivot from B2B to...

Platform Development Request: Year in Review

Posted Nov 1, 2023

The Platform Development Request (PDR) process has been a significant addition to our software platform since its introduction last October. The PDR process aims to directly involve you, our clients,...

Platform Strategies Recap: AI in Scholarly Publishing Panel

Posted Nov 1, 2023

This panel discussed how artificial intelligence and large language models have the potential to change, even disrupt, every aspect of scholarly publishing. From how infrastructure and platforms are developed to...

UX Design & Principles in Action

Posted Oct 27, 2023

In the early days of Silverchair, the user experience (UX) team worked very much in the design firm model, where a designer would collaborate with a client on their build or redesign....

AI Reading Roundup: October 2023

Posted Oct 26, 2023

AI, LLMs, and machine learning are set to disrupt every aspects of our lives, from the way we live to the way we consume information, and from the way we...

Silverchair & Google Scholar: Takeaways from our Partnership Roundtable

Posted Oct 18, 2023

Silverchair’s partnership with Google Scholar is centered around empowering publishers to enhance the discoverability of their content and improve the overall experience for authors and researchers. The Search + Discoverability...

Platform Strategies: Attendees Share Their Takeaways

Posted Oct 18, 2023

Platform Strategies attracts over 150 thought leaders and decision-makers from across our industry for a day of engaging, inspiring discussions, with ample networking built in to the day. A third...

2023 Fall Conference Season Recaps

Posted Oct 13, 2023

Fall conference season is in full swing and our team has had a blast learning and connecting with industry colleagues. In addition to hosting our own industry meeting, Platform Strategies,...

Behind the Scenes: Security

Posted Oct 10, 2023

As the Director of Technical & Security Operations, Robb Burgess and his teams ensure that our publisher sites are secure, available, and stable. Robb recently received his CISSP (Certified Information Systems...

Behind the Scenes: Performance

Posted Oct 10, 2023

In this series of Behind the Scenes blog posts, we’ll be sharing excerpts from our June 2023 Forum @Home event, “Unsexy & Unseen: The Hidden Benefits of Being on a...

Not Your Mother’s Migration: Complexities and Opportunities

Posted Oct 6, 2023

In our June Strategies Spotlight, panelists from AIP Publishing, DCL, and Silverchair shared their perspectives on AIPP’s recent migration and what other publishers can learn from the experience. View the...

Platform Strategies: Silverchairians Share Their Takeaways

Posted Oct 5, 2023

Recordings from the 2023 Platform Strategies event are now available in the archive. Here are the takeaways from Silverchair attendees. You may also view photos from the event here. Craig...

Analytics Tips: Deposits Power BI Failure Alerts

Posted Oct 5, 2023

In this new blog series, we’ll offer tips, tricks, and instructions to help clients make the most of Silverchair’s analytics offering. Have an idea for a future blog? Email forum@silverchair.com....

Silverchair Appoints Will Schweitzer as CEO

Posted Sep 22, 2023

(Charlottesville, VA) September 22, 2023 – Silverchair, the leading independent content management, product enablement, and digital transformation platform for publishers, today announced that Will Schweitzer has been appointed to serve...

AI READING ROUNDUP: September 2023

Posted Sep 21, 2023

AI, LLMs, and machine learning are set to disrupt every aspects of our lives, from the way we live to the way we consume information, and from the way we...

Behind the Scenes: Agility in the Cloud

Posted Sep 20, 2023

In this series of Behind the Scenes blog posts, we’ll be sharing excerpts from our June 2023 Forum @Home event, “Unsexy & Unseen: The Hidden Benefits of Being on a...

Introducing Sensus Impact’s Community of Practice

Posted Sep 15, 2023

This summer, Silverchair convened the first meeting of the Sensus Impact Community of Practice. In the lead-up to this meeting, individuals from over 30 organizations in the scholarly publishing industry...

Behind the Scenes: Availability

Posted Sep 15, 2023

In this series of Behind the Scenes blog posts, we’ll be sharing excerpts from our June 2023 Forum @Home event, “Unsexy & Unseen: The Hidden Benefits of Being on a...

White Paper: AI in Scholarly Publishing

Posted Sep 11, 2023

Scholarly publishing (and the world at large) is undergoing an unprecedented period of change. Artificial intelligence has tipped from specialized models geared toward solving narrow problems to generalized models, capable...

Behind the Scenes: Technology People Infrastructure

Posted Sep 7, 2023

In this series of Behind the Scenes blog posts, we’ll be sharing excerpts from our June 2023 Forum @Home event, “Unsexy & Unseen: The Hidden Benefits of Being on a...

Sustainable Strategies: Globally Responsible Event Planning

Posted Sep 5, 2023

Later this month, Silverchair will host the in-person return of our popular industry event, Platform Strategies, in Washington, DC. Though we welcome the increased frequency and reach that virtual events...

Accessibility as User Experience

Posted Aug 31, 2023

In a recent Forum event, User Experience: Designing sUXessful Interfaces, Brandon Grimes, Senior Business Analyst, discussed the strides that Silverchair has made regarding accessibility. Silverchair believes that it is imperative...

Enhancing Publisher Content Through Semantic Enrichment

Posted Aug 25, 2023

Semantic enrichment at Silverchair is led by Taxonomy Manager, Morgan James Eaton, whose library science background is complemented by his expertise in pharmaceutical market research, metadata management, and client services....

AI Reading Roundup: August 2023

Posted Aug 24, 2023

AI, LLMs, and machine learning are set to disrupt every aspects of our lives, from the way we live to the way we consume information, and from the way we...

Silverchair: A Company History

Posted Aug 18, 2023

It’s been more than 30 years since Silverchair was founded. Over that time, we’ve gone from indexing to CD-ROMs to being the leading independent platform provider for scholarly and professional...

Agile Work Environments: Prioritizing People in the Best and Worst of Times

Posted Aug 17, 2023

Fostering a people-centered agile work environment in the best of times requires patience and intentionality. In the face of intense change and crisis, organizations can be tempted to make short-term trade-offs with...

A History of UX at Silverchair

Posted Aug 16, 2023

I started at Silverchair in 2015. At the time, the UX team worked very much in the design firm model where a designer would collaborate with a client on their build or redesign....

The Impacts of a Personalized Learning Curriculum

Posted Aug 10, 2023

In our previous feature from the May Strategies Spotlight, we showcased viewpoints on the pace of change in education and the impact of technology in panelists’ own experiences. Now, we...

What’s in a Price? Part 2: The process in action

Posted Aug 10, 2023

In Part 1, we reviewed the basic phases of the project estimate process, from request to delivery, as well as tips on making sure that process goes as smoothly and...

Platform Strategies 2023: Session Details

Posted Aug 8, 2023

Next month, Silverchair’s Platform Strategies meeting returns to Washington, DC. The agenda shines a spotlight on the Fall’s biggest trends in scholarly publishing: AI, partnership models, the acceleration of data...

Career Development and Networking for Introverted Leaders

Posted Aug 3, 2023

The 2023 Society for Scholarly Publishing meeting hosted a popular panel discussion with self-identified introverted leaders for a conversation about the specific challenges and benefits of being an introvert when...

What’s In a Price? Part 1: The estimate process

Posted Aug 1, 2023

When dealing with SWAGs and estimates, there are many layers of complexity that can make it hard to know where the numbers come from. Below, we aim to unravel and...

How Has Technology Changed Education?

Posted Aug 1, 2023

In our May Strategies Spotlight, panelists shared their perspectives on the pace of change in education and the use of technology in their learning and teaching experiences. The group reflected...

Mobile End-User Considerations & Research Guidance

Posted Jul 21, 2023

Recently, we shared an excerpt from our Strategies Spotlight: Appetizing Your Content that shared the team’s strategies for fostering a collaborative project between multiple stakeholders. Below, the team shares insights...

Silverchair Announces Partnership Renewal with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses

Posted Jul 20, 2023

(Charlottesville, VA and Denver, CO) July 20, 2023 – Silverchair and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) announced the renewal of their partnership to host AORN’s acclaimed perioperative nursing...

Fostering Cohesion & Collaboration: Insights from Long-Term Partnership

Posted Jul 18, 2023

Over the last year, McGraw Hill has collaborated with Silverchair and app developer WillowTree to create an app that delivers a variety of content types in a way that is...

AAP Launches New Offerings Leveraging Silverchair Composer

Posted Jul 13, 2023

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced the launch of two new digital products on the Silverchair Platform: First 1,000 Days Knowledge Center and NeoKit: Tools for Assessment and Care of the Newborn....

Silverchair Affirms Commitment to Customer Success & Community-Led Innovation with Two New Leadership Hires

Posted Jun 29, 2023

(Charlottesville, VA) June 29, 2023 – Silverchair announced today the expansion of their Customer Success team with the addition of Emilie Delquié as SVP of Product and Customer Success and...

Sensus Impact: Visualizing Your Value

Posted Jun 25, 2023

At the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) meeting in May, Silverchair and OUP announced Sensus Impact, a new community initiative to demonstrate the value of funded research. Below, learn more...

Case study: JAMA Network Reveals the value of their data with PSI Metrics

Posted Jun 25, 2023

PSI, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program, recently partnered with the JAMA Network to leverage PSI Metrics in identifying OA usage of their esteemed content. PSI Metrics uses the...

Ask the community: Modern approaches to consortia

Posted May 23, 2023

Consortia offer a great way for smaller institutions to access materials they might not otherwise be able to afford and for publishers to develop close partnerships with member institutions. However,...

Silverchair Clients: Get 50% off Platform Strategies registration

Posted May 23, 2023

Platform Strategies returns to Washington, DC on September 27th with renewed energy and excitement to tackle the technology challenges facing the scholarly publishing industry. View the preliminary agenda below, hear...

Unlock the Power of: Analysis & Content Service APIs

Posted May 22, 2023

Need to provide your vendors with quick and easy access to the content they need without waiting for a traditional downstream deposit? Tired of manually searching through and parsing content...

SSP 2023: Transforming our Communities

Posted May 22, 2023

Our flights are booked, our swag is ordered, our dinners are scheduled—it must be SSP season! This year’s Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting will take place in Portland, Oregon...

Join Publishing Leaders at Platform Strategies in Washington, DC

Posted May 16, 2023

Platform Strategies explores the technologies and strategies that support professional and scholarly knowledge. After a three-year hiatus, the popular in-person event returns to Washington, DC with renewed energy and excitement...

2023 Silverchair | Architecture Runway

Posted May 9, 2023

Platform Architecture plays a crucial role in ensuring a platform is scalable, flexible, secure, and future-proof. At Silverchair, our architecture team is at the forefront of driving technology innovations and...

Community-Led Growth – a Major Strategy for 2023

Posted May 8, 2023

This guest blog is written by Charles Thiede, CEO & Co-Founder of Zapnito, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Communities are in the spotlight at many organizations thanks to the...

Unlock the potential of your platform with zero- & first-party affinities

Posted May 2, 2023

As publishers strive to compete for users with the ever-growing torrent of content available online, it has become increasingly important to know your users and to personalize their experiences. Recently,...

Unlock the potential of your platform with Zero- and First-Party Affinities

Posted May 2, 2023

As a leading provider of scholarly and professional publishing platforms, Silverchair is constantly innovating and evolving our product to help you meet your users’ needs and amplify your content’s impact....

AIP Publishing Launches on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Apr 24, 2023

(Charlottesville, VA and Melville, NY) April 24, 2023 – AIP Publishing (AIPP) and Silverchair announced today the launch of AIPP’s new digital publication platform, home to the most influential research,...

The State of Silverchair | Analytics Spotlight

Posted Apr 14, 2023

As the world’s leading independent platform for scholarly and professional publishers, Silverchair is committed to continuous improvement and innovation. In our new biannual State of Silverchair event, we share updates...

User Journeys, Security, Innovation, & Other 2023 Trends

Posted Apr 4, 2023

In our second annual Publishing Technology Trends report (created in collaboration with our friends at Hum), Silverchair’s President, Will Schweitzer, offered some of his predictions for what 2023 holds for...

Getting Started on your Digital Meeting Content Strategy

Posted Mar 24, 2023

Previously on our blog, we shared an excerpt from the 2022 Platform Strategies Content Trends event, which centered on various approaches to conference content durability. Below, we share another excerpt...

Ask the Community: Publisher Pro Tips

Posted Mar 22, 2023

One of the goals of the Forum Hub is to facilitate information sharing both from Silverchair to clients as well as between publishers. Following a suggestion at a recent Publisher...

Announcing Platform Strategies 2023

Posted Mar 21, 2023

Platform Strategies is an industrywide event that gathers publishers, technologists, and leaders from scholarly publishing and beyond to discuss the tools and strategies shaping our future. Over the last three...

2023 Silverchair Forum Events

Posted Mar 16, 2023

Registration is now open for the 2023 Silverchair Forum @Home events! One of Silverchair’s primary values centers on actively cultivating our client and industry communities, which is why Silverchair’s client...

Demystifying Migrations, Part 2: Insights Into the Platform Migration Process

Posted Mar 16, 2023

As covered in Part 1 of this series on the modern platform migration process, changing platforms is no longer the headache it once was. After years of experience, industry-wide collaborations,...

2023 Publisher Working Groups

Posted Mar 3, 2023

To best serve our clients, their needs must significantly influence our platform development plan. Publisher feedback is essential to our development plan, alongside market trends, emerging research needs, competitor activity,...

2023 Client Working Groups

Posted Mar 2, 2023

To best serve you, our clients, their needs must significantly influence our platform development plan. Publisher feedback is essential to our development plan, alongside market trends, emerging research needs, competitor...

Demystifying Migrations, Part 1: What to Expect When Expecting a Migration

Posted Feb 21, 2023

Mention a platform migration in a room full of publishers, and you’re likely to notice a ripple of shivers through the crowd – PTSD from previous experiences and colleague horror...

Approaches to Conference Content Durability

Posted Feb 13, 2023

Last Fall, Silverchair convened industry leaders on the forefront of these topics for a discussion of how to prepare and what’s coming next. Below is an excerpt centering on the...

Our Journey to Accessibility Compliance

Posted Feb 8, 2023

How is Silverchair engaging more accessible content, might you ask? Here’s an inside scoop from one of Silverchair’s Senior Business Analysts. By Brandon Grimes This past summer, we ventured on...

2022 Product Innovation at Silverchair

Posted Jan 26, 2023

Silverchair releases new content to the platform every three weeks, meaning a constant cycle of improvements and new functionality. Since the start of a new year offers a great opportunity...

The Royal Society of Chemistry Launches Innovative Books Offering on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Jan 25, 2023

(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) January 25, 2023 – Silverchair and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) announce the launch of RSC’s extensive book program on the Silverchair Platform. The...

2023 Content Trends

Posted Jan 23, 2023

In our second annual Publishing Tech Trends report, Silverchair & Hum partnered to gain insight into what industry leaders think will drive change in 2023. Below, read excerpts from the...

2022 Silverchair Retrospective

Posted Jan 18, 2023

2022 was a year of growth & gatherings for Silverchair. In addition to our new capital investment, new publisher partnerships, and new product announcements, we gathered in person again for...

2023 Publishing Tech Trends

Posted Jan 10, 2023

In the second annual report on publishing technology trends from Silverchair & Hum, Hum’s President & Co-Founder, Dustin Smith, looks at five trends likely to shape 2023. Then, a panel...

American Accounting Association Journals Launch on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Dec 13, 2022

(Charlottesville, VA and Lakewood Ranch, FL) December 13, 2022 – Today, Silverchair and the American Accounting Association (AAA) announced the launch of AAA’s premier collection of academic journals on the...

User Privacy Rights: what publishers need to know

Posted Dec 1, 2022

Only 21% of global consumers report increased trust in companies’ use of their data, and 85% wish they could trust more companies with their data. That’s why data privacy compliance...

The American Association of Immunologists Journals Launch on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Nov 21, 2022

(Charlottesville, VA and Rockville, MD) November 21, 2022 – Silverchair and The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) announced the launch of AAI Journals on the Silverchair Platform. In conjunction with...

For Silverchair Clients: Full Data Privacy White Paper

Posted Nov 18, 2022

Yesterday, Silverchair released a new white paper, “Data Privacy for Publishers: Getting ahead of the evolving global landscape,” designed to be a simple, accessible guide to help scholarly publishers prepare...

Data Privacy for Publishers: Getting ahead of the evolving global landscape

Posted Nov 17, 2022

As the demand for digital products and services continues to drive the transformation of the scholarly publishing industry, so has the need for data privacy compliance become increasingly necessary. In...

Migrating from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

Posted Nov 14, 2022

On July 1, 2023, Google Universal Analytics (UA) will stop processing new hits. Google has replaced Universal Analytics with a new product called Google Analytics 4, or GA4 for short....

Reflections from the 2022 Silverchair Summit

Posted Nov 4, 2022

Last month, Silverchair convened not one but TWO major community events (oh, and sponsored / co-organized a Charlottesville community event as well!). One of those was the Inaugural Silverchair Summit,...

Introducing the new Platform Development Request process

Posted Nov 3, 2022

Those who attended Forum last week got a sneak peek of the new Platform Development Request process, or “PDR” for short. As of today, this functionality has been rolled out...

Reflections on the 2022 Silverchair Fall Forum

Posted Nov 3, 2022

After three years of virtual events, last week we convened our client community in our hometown for two days of education, collaboration, and relationship-building. And it was amazing. But don’t...

Sustaining Community: Environmental Practices at the 2022 Fall Forum

Posted Oct 18, 2022

Next week, Silverchair will welcome members of our client community to our headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia for a day of informative presentations and working groups, a chance to meet with...

Professional Development at Silverchair

Posted Oct 10, 2022

The question candidates for any position at Silverchair most commonly ask me is what professional growth opportunities we offer. That is not at all surprising given that lack of opportunities...

The American Accounting Association Partners with Silverchair

Posted Sep 28, 2022

(Charlottesville, VA and Lakewood Ranch, FL) September 28, 2022 – Silverchair announced today a new partnership with the American Accounting Association (AAA). For over 100 years, AAA has been a...

Continuous & Content-Rich: A Review of Medical Education Technology Needs & Opportunities

Posted Sep 6, 2022

Among Silverchair’s clients is a prestigious group of medical education providers who deliver many high-profile products on the Silverchair Platform. In recent years, our teams have identified unique challenges and...

Selling Without Selling Out: Selecting an Investor With Intelligence and Integrity

Posted Sep 1, 2022

As you know by now, Silverchair recently selected Thompson Street Capital Partners to help accelerate our company’s plans for greater growth and impact in the world. What has so far...

An Interview with Will Schweitzer

Posted Aug 23, 2022

Silverchair recently announced a new capital partnership as well as the appointment of Will Schweitzer (previously Chief Product & Customer Success Officer) as President. Learn more about these developments in...

PI21 Zipline Enhancements

Posted Aug 16, 2022

In PI21, Silverchair made changes to Zipline to improve performance, specifically: Archiving packages older than one year Reasoning: Archiving package metadata older than one year greatly reduces the amount of...

Silverchair + TSCP

Posted Aug 11, 2022

Thanks to you and your fellow publishers, Silverchair’s success has accelerated in recent years. We have grown by nearly 40% since 2019, as our community has expanded to include more...

Silverchair Accelerates Product Development & Expansion through New Capital Partnership

Posted Aug 11, 2022

Silverchair selects Thompson Street Capital Partners for major growth investment (Charlottesville, VA and St. Louis, MO) August 11, 2022 – Silverchair, the leading independent content management, product enablement, and digital...

Silverchair Appoints Hannah Heckner Vice President, Product

Posted Aug 2, 2022

(Charlottesville, VA) August 2, 2022 – Silverchair is pleased to announce the promotion of Hannah Heckner to Vice President, Product, as it continues to invest in its Product function. As...

The American Registry of Pathology Digital Library Launches

Posted Aug 1, 2022

(Charlottesville, VA and Arlington, VA) August 1, 2022 – Silverchair and the American Registry of Pathology Press (ARP Press) announced today the launch of the American Registry of Pathology’s digital...

EXCERPTS: Tech Trends in Digital Transformation

Posted Jul 20, 2022

As a part of this year’s Platform Strategies Webinar Series, Silverchair hosted Will Schweitzer (Chief Product and Customer Success Officer at Silverchair), Ann Michael (Chief Transformation Officer, AIP Publishing), John...

ICYMI: First-Party Affinity Service

Posted Jul 18, 2022

In Sprint 205, Silverchair released our engagement-based affinity service into the Silverchair Platform Theme to allow Silverchair publishers to leverage user- and content-based metrics for business decisions. Silverchair’s First-Party Affinity...

Silverchair’s Strengths-Based Reviews Unlock Passion and Potential

Posted Jul 12, 2022

The research supports what all great leaders innately understand: there is no leverage in weakness. This is why in the Fall of 2021, Silverchair adopted a strengths-based approach to performance management. ...

The urgency of personalization for publishers

Posted Jul 8, 2022

The past two years have ushered in tremendous change in the ways people communicate, connect, and consume content online. The pandemic has expedited the transition towards increasingly online experiences, and...

GDPR & User Privacy Resources for Publishers

Posted Jun 17, 2022

In June, Silverchair hosted Emilie David (Director, Copyright, Licensing & Special Projects at Science/AAAS) for a discussion on how publishers are taking on GDPR and user privacy policy compliance (watch...

SSP 2022 Reflections: Building a More Connected Scholarly Community

Posted Jun 9, 2022

Last week, members of the Silverchair and Hum teams travelled to Chicago for the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) meeting, the first in-person conference for most attendees since early 2020....

Composer Snapshots: Silverchair & Client Perspectives

Posted Jun 7, 2022

You know about Composer, the Silverchair authoring tool that gives first-class treatment to semi-structured content like blogs, news, and beyond. As more clients have begun using the tool, Silverchair’s own...

Dear Composer: A Love Letter from a Silverchair BA

Posted Jun 7, 2022

AIP Publishing Accelerates Scitation’s Innovation and Growth with New Partnership

Posted May 24, 2022

Silverchair selected as digital transformation and product enablement platform (Charlottesville, VA and Melville, NY) May 24, 2022 – AIP Publishing (AIPP) and Silverchair announced today a new partnership to host...

SSP 2022: Reconnecting IRL with our Community

Posted May 13, 2022

Over the last 2+ years, we’ve been privileged to learn just how resilient Silverchair’s communities are. Our team members, clients, and industry colleagues stayed connected through video calls, fun virtual...

New resource & upcoming enhancements: Accessibility at Silverchair

Posted May 12, 2022

Silverchair has prioritized accessibility for years, having designed, developed, and hosted federal government sites that legally required 508 Compliance, such as Patient Safety Network and National Guideline Clearinghouse. Today, AA...

Industry Security PSA: New unauthorized content access broker identified

Posted May 11, 2022

The most effective method for combatting malicious content theft is to encourage discussion and raise awareness within the academic and publishing communities, which is why we share this information here....

Spotlight: The Silverchair Women & Allies Network

Posted May 6, 2022

Several years ago, after-work gatherings of several Silverchair women started to morph into standing get-togethers prompting insightful discussions, shared laughs, and a platform for stronger working relationships. That group has...

The American Diabetes Association Launches on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Apr 28, 2022

(Charlottesville, VA and Arlington, VA) April 28, 2022 – Silverchair and the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) announced the launch of ADA’s Professional Publications site on the Silverchair Platform, opening up...

Wellness at Silverchair

Posted Apr 15, 2022

Silverchair is committed to supporting our team members not just as employees through professional development and role support, but as whole people. This mindset is built into everything our company...

Announcing Platform Strategies 2022

Posted Apr 7, 2022

Silverchair is delighted to announce the launch of the 2022 Platform Strategies Webinar Series. Platform Strategies explores the technologies and strategies that support professional and scholarly knowledge. Since the inception...

Silverchair Supports AAOS in Launching the Resident Orthopaedic Core Knowledge Program

Posted Apr 5, 2022

First-of-its kind technology platform enables dynamic and engaging curriculum to standardize the baseline knowledge for orthopaedic resident training (Charlottesville, VA) April 5, 2022 – Silverchair, the leading technology partner to...

PI 20 Preview

Posted Mar 23, 2022

Spring has sprung in Charlottesville and we’re nearly one full sprint into PI 20. While some roadmap projects were sidelined in the first two months of the year, we’re charging...

The American Association of Immunologists and Silverchair Advance Immunology Research

Posted Mar 17, 2022

(Charlottesville, VA and Rockville, MD) March 17, 2022 – Silverchair and The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) announced an agreement to migrate AAI publications to the Silverchair Platform. Founded in...

Announcing the 2022 Silverchair Forum Events!

Posted Mar 16, 2022

As you know, one of Silverchair’s primary values centers on actively cultivating our client and industry communities, which is why we are so delighted to announce the 2022 lineup of...

Spotlight: DevOps at Silverchair

Posted Mar 15, 2022

DevOps (short for “Developer Operations”) is at its essence about empowering developers and development teams. At Silverchair, we feel that everyone should see “DevOps” less as a team, and more...

Silverchair’s Hybrid Work Environment

Posted Mar 2, 2022

Since the pandemic, Silverchair has implemented a fully hybrid working model. This allows Silverchairians to come into the office or work from home, depending on their own need and preferences....

AACR Launches New Publications Portal for Cancer Research

Posted Feb 16, 2022

(Charlottesville, VA and Philadelphia, PA) February 16, 2022 – Silverchair and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) announced the launch of AACR’s publications on the Silverchair Platform. The AACR...

Leveraging Content in 2022

Posted Feb 15, 2022

Publishers sit on a treasure trove of content and data, which means no shortage of product and audience opportunities, but also means no shortage of complexity. As organizations adjust to...

The Future of Publishing Technology

Posted Feb 15, 2022

In a new report, Silverchair’s Chief Product & Customer Success Officer Will Schweitzer examines six broad trends in publishing technology. Then, a panel of 14 publishing executives and consultants weigh...

Introducing: Ask the Community

Posted Feb 15, 2022

Launched in 2021, the Forum Hub was designed to serve as just that: a hub for Silverchair clients to access important info and resources, and to hear directly from us....

Silverchair’s Office: Our (Physical) Workplace of the Future

Posted Jan 25, 2022

Silverchair is proud to offer absolute flexibility to our people – fully embracing remote work while also offering a comfortable and beautiful coworking space in historic downtown Charlottesville. (Read more...

Silverchair & The American Medical Association: A Case Study on the Retained Development Team Model

Posted Jan 24, 2022

Silverchair serves a range of scholarly and professional publishers, from independent association publishers with a single journal, to aggregators who in turn serve hundreds of societies. For this reason, Silverchair...

Takeaways: Silverchair 2021 Client Surveys

Posted Jan 24, 2022

In 2021, Silverchair conducted two different client surveys. In August, we hired DeltaThink to interview individuals at a representative subset of clients for in-depth discussions to deepen our understanding of...

2021 Silverchair Retrospective

Posted Jan 11, 2022

If the theme of 2020 was pivoting and planning, 2021 moved beyond adapting to the changes brought on by the pandemic and other factors and on to growing and thriving...

All Your Content in One Place (But Not All at Once)

Posted Jan 10, 2022

It used to be that when approaching any significant change regarding a publisher’s content—whether it be metadata clean-up, format conversion to a newer standard, or migrating to a new platform—the...

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Silverchair

Posted Jan 10, 2022

Silverchair’s mission is to change the world for the better by empowering creators and users of scholarly and professional knowledge to maximize their positive impact on humanity. As a company that aims to innovate...

PI 18 Recap

Posted Jan 6, 2022

In Program Increment 18, which ran from late September through mid-December, the Silverchair team closed out the year by delivering several valuable platform enhancements, including: Adding new configurations and features...

PI 19 preview

Posted Jan 6, 2022

2022 is already off to a roaring start here at Silverchair. The first quarter of this year will be dedicated to some projects to enable exciting new builds, as well...

2021 Publisher Working Group Updates

Posted Nov 24, 2021

It’s already November, and our latest cohort of Publisher Working Groups have been engaging in insightful and productive discussions in the latter half of the year. Below is a recap...

Remote & Hybrid Work Reading List

Posted Nov 22, 2021

Since the start of the pandemic, when our office-centered workforce went fully remote overnight, Silverchair has been continuously engaged in learning, listening, and actively evolving our remote and hybrid work...

Promoting Organizational Health through Explicit Hybrid Work Norms

Posted Nov 15, 2021

Earlier this year we published our best thinking on “How to make video meetings less terrible.” Since then, we have deepened our understanding of the work norms our people need...

The American Academy of Pediatrics Launches Unified Publications Platform

Posted Nov 11, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and Itasca, IL) November 11, 2021 – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Silverchair announced today the launch of AAP’s new unified publications site on the Silverchair...

Staff Spotlight: Matt Abraham

Posted Nov 2, 2021

Each sprint we feature a spotlight on a Silverchairian to help clients get to know more about the people you work with on a day-to-day basis. Matt Abraham Job Title: Business...

Working at Silverchair: Corporate Perks

Posted Nov 2, 2021

When we talk about the “perks” of working at Silverchair, it usually centers on our culture. The Silverchair culture is very important to us and is something we actively cultivate...

Silverchair Universe Spotlight: PSI

Posted Oct 28, 2021

The Silverchair Universe is a framework of complementary products and services that publishers may choose to integrate with the Silverchair Platform. Universe partners are best-in-class vendors that provide everything from...

An Executive’s Guide to Kickstarting Digital Transformation

Posted Oct 25, 2021

Silverchair’s sister company, Hum, recently release a new whitepaper, “An Executive’s Guide to Kickstarting Digital Transformation.” The report promotes a process of incremental, iterative change, an idea that those of...

Guest Post: So, what do I do with all these videos now?!

Posted Oct 25, 2021

This guest blog is written by Jessica Lawrence-Hurt, Chief Marketing Officer at Cadmore Media, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. If you’re like many associations and societies, you now...

PI 17 Recap

Posted Oct 22, 2021

It’s hard to believe fall is here and that we’re all starting to plan for the holiday season. This hasn’t slowed down Team Silverchair, and we delivered some great features...

Silverchair Analytics Upgrade

Posted Oct 14, 2021

Earlier this year, we launched Silverchair Analytics, a new analytics solution that leveraged live data streams to give real-time insights to publishers. As with all Silverchair offerings, Silverchair Analytics is continuously improved...

The American Registry of Pathology Selects Silverchair to Host Its Digital Library

Posted Oct 14, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and Arlington, VA) October 14, 2021 – Silverchair and the American Registry of Pathology Press announced today a new partnership to develop and host the digital version of...

PI 18 Preview

Posted Oct 13, 2021

It’s hard to believe it, but we’ve just completed the first sprint of our last PI of 2021. This has been a year with a few pivots in regards to...

2021 Fall Forum: Background & Agenda

Posted Oct 4, 2021

Over the past six months, we’ve enjoyed having the opportunity to regularly engage with you on key platform and industry topics through the Silverchair Forum @Home and Platform Strategies Webinar...

How Publishers Can Use AI to Capitalize on Trending News Topics

Posted Sep 27, 2021

This guest blog is from Yewno Inc., a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. How do publishers, specifically publishers of scholarly content, link their more in-depth content to trending topics in mainstream news...

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy Launches with an Upgraded Interface & Modern User Experience

Posted Sep 23, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and North Bethesda, MD) September 23, 2021 – Silverchair and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) announced today the launch of the significantly upgraded American Journal of Occupational...

MLA Handbook Plus Launches as a Digital Resource on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Sep 21, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and New York, NY) September 21, 2021 – The Modern Language Association and Silverchair announced today the launch of MLA Handbook Plus, a digital-subscription version of the flagship...

Silverchair partners American Medical Association and Rockefeller University Press join GetFTR

Posted Sep 15, 2021

View the original release on the GetFTR website here. The American Medical Association and Rockefeller University Press have today announced their partnership with Get Full Text Research (GetFTR), a free-to-use...

Do research-paper recommendations work?

Posted Sep 13, 2021

This guest blog is written by Michael Upshall, Head of Sales & Business Development at UNSILO, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Most content-based websites contain recommendations. Whether you...

Analytics 101: Recording & Additional Resources

Posted Sep 9, 2021

Watch the recording from the August 2021 Silverchair Forum event and explore the resources below to help answer your data questions and more. Further reading & resources: Silverchair’s Google Analytics...

Working at Silverchair: Why we love being headquartered in Cville

Posted Aug 26, 2021

Since our founding in 1993, Silverchair has been headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Over the years, we expanded to include several remote employees and recently shifted to a full hybrid work...

Telling your data story: getting started with data points & sources

Posted Aug 23, 2021

Scholarly publishers are sitting on a wealth of content and user data from myriad sources. As organizations strive to reap the value from the insights these data sources provide, the...

Introducing the NEW Silverchair Platform User Guides

Posted Aug 19, 2021

Connected to the launch of the Tools Portal is the release of redesigned, updated, and upgraded Silverchair Platform Tool User Guides. The project to refresh our user guides has been...

PI 17 Preview

Posted Aug 19, 2021

While it may be the summer doldrums in Virginia right now, Silverchairians are filling these dog days of summer with tireless work to cross items off of our list for...

Google Analytics Starter Guide

Posted Aug 18, 2021

Google Analytics (GA) is an extremely valuable but also complex tool. This guide is designed to help Silverchair clients get started in navigating GA’s different areas, discovering useful metrics and data,...

National Intern Day: Marketing Corner

Posted Jul 29, 2021

In honor of National Intern Day (July 29th) Silverchair’s Forge Summer Intern, Mary Larkin Douthitt, joined Director of Marketing Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen to talk all things marketing, since Mary Larkin...

Karger Publishers Selects Silverchair to Connect and Advance Health Sciences

Posted Jul 29, 2021

Silverchair and Karger Publishers have announced an agreement to host Karger’s extensive portfolio of health sciences content on the Silverchair Platform. Karger Publishers is a globally active independent publisher dedicated...

Get to Know the Team: What we love about Silverchair

Posted Jul 15, 2021

As Silverchair clients know, in each of our sprintly (every 3 weeks) platform release notes emails, we feature a spotlight on a Silverchair staff member. These spotlights include the “in...

Welcome to the Forum Hub

Posted Jul 15, 2021

If you’re reading this post, it means you’ve already found your way to our new Silverchair-client-only space, The Forum Hub—welcome! The recent absence of in-person meetings and the community-building that...

Silverchair Analytics Launches, Providing Flexible, Real-Time Insights to all Silverchair Publishers

Posted Jul 14, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA) July 14, 2020 – Silverchair today announced the launch of Silverchair Analytics, the platform’s new streaming analytics and data analysis solution. Silverchair Analytics offers access to real-time data...

2021 Publisher Working Groups

Posted Jul 8, 2021

As part of Silverchair’s ongoing dedication to partnership, we convene specialized Publisher Working Groups for 4-6 month periods, centered on topics surfaced at our annual Silverchair Forum client events, shared...

Report: Getting the Most Mileage from Your Content

Posted Jul 6, 2021

The changes brought by the events of 2020 have led publishers to examine and think creatively about their value proposition and how they can monetize their content and data assets....

Getting Back to “Business as Usual” – A Framework

Posted Jun 23, 2021

In May, Silverchair hosted Lauren Kane (Chief Strategy Officer of Morressier) and Will Schweitzer (Chief Product and Customer Success Officer of Silverchair) for the first event in the 2021 Platform...

Coming Soon: Silverchair Analytics

Posted Jun 2, 2021

Last December, we announced the development of Silverchair Analytics, our new cloud-based analytics solution and data visualization tool. Now, we’d like to give you additional insight into this new offering, how...

The MIT Press Journals Join MIT Press Direct on the Silverchair Platform

Posted May 25, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and Cambridge, MA) May 25, 2021 – Silverchair and the MIT Press announce the launch of 39 of the Press’s journals on the Silverchair Platform. These journals join...

The Modern Language Association Selects Silverchair

Posted May 24, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and New York, NY) May 24, 2021 – Silverchair announced today a new partnership with the Modern Language Association (MLA) to host MLA Handbook Plus, a digital-subscription version...

Silverchair’s Workplace of the Future Comes Into Sharper Focus

Posted May 20, 2021

In April, Silverchair released our second Workplace of the Future survey to ask more of the questions we need answered in order to fine-tune our evolving hybrid work model. We compiled some insightful data...

The American Diabetes Association Selects Silverchair as a Unified Content Hosting Partner

Posted May 19, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and Arlington, VA) May 19, 2021 – Silverchair and the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) announced a new partnership today to migrate the ADA’s content to the Silverchair Platform,...

Silverchair Joins GetFTR

Posted May 18, 2021

May 18, 2021 – Silverchair, the leading independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers, has adopted GetFTR (Get Full Text Research) technology, supporting a more streamlined and smarter way...

2020 Publisher Working Groups: University Presses

Posted May 13, 2021

Last year, as part of our commitment to partnership, Silverchair assembled specialized Publisher Working Groups. The working groups are time-bound and focus on topics surfaced at Silverchair Forum events, shared...

2020 Publisher Working Groups: Curation & Commerce

Posted May 6, 2021

Now hosting: “Persephone Ascending,” A Multi-site Group Show of Virginia Women Artists

Posted Apr 26, 2021

Silverchair is proud to be hosting local artist Barbara MacCallum as part of Persephone Ascending, a multi-site show of Virginia women artists. Persephone Ascending is on view for the month...

Earth Day and the Earth Sciences: Connecting Geology and Sustainability

Posted Apr 22, 2021

This guest post is authored by Phoebe McMellon, CEO of GeoScienceWorld For well over a year, the world’s attention has been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, a crisis unlike anything...

The Company of Biologists Launches New Journal Sites on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Apr 19, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and Cambridge, UK) April 19, 2021 – The Company of Biologists has migrated its leading journals to the Silverchair Platform, improving user experience and maximizing the discoverability of...

2020 Publisher Working Groups: Future First-Class Objects

Posted Apr 15, 2021

Announcing the 2021 Platform Strategies Webinar Series

Posted Apr 13, 2021

As with everything else last year, Silverchair’s 2020 Platform Strategies event was shifted to virtual, with three individual events spread across five months. While we missed the dinners and side conversations, the...

2020 Publisher Working Groups: Text and Data Mining

Posted Apr 8, 2021

Noise vs. Knowledge

Posted Apr 5, 2021

This guest blog is written by Charles Thiede, CEO & Co-Founder of Zapnito, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. For all knowledge industries, social media has become unfeasible as a means...

IFIS Launches IFIS Collections on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Mar 31, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and Wokingham, UK) March 31, 2021 – Silverchair and IFIS announced today the launch of IFIS Collections on the Silverchair Platform. These human-curated, sector-specific databases are designed to...

How to Make Video Meetings Less Terrible

Posted Mar 29, 2021

I have been hearing for months how exhausted everyone is by the endless parade of video meetings. There is good reason for this. Yet, even as the prospect of reopening becomes...

AACR Engages Silverchair to Expand the Reach & Impact of Cancer Research Publications

Posted Mar 23, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and Philadelphia, PA) March 23, 2021 – Silverchair announced today an agreement with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) to migrate their content to the Silverchair Platform....

Innovation to Revive a Declining Publishing Model

Posted Mar 15, 2021

Last week, we introduced Hum, a new Silverchair sister company providing audience intelligence solutions for associations, societies, and publishers. Here, Silverchair CEO Thane Kerner adds context to Hum’s creation and...

Employee Appreciation Day 2021

Posted Mar 5, 2021

In honor of Employee Appreciation Day, Silverchair’s executive team shared the messages below with our team. (Tim Barton, President) The idea of ‘Employee Appreciation Day’ doesn’t quite sit right with...

Knowledge Graphs and Academic Publishing: Providing a Framework and Context for Your Content

Posted Mar 1, 2021

This guest blog is written by Ruth Pickering, COO of Yewno Inc., a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Knowledge is essential to human culture. Systems of belief, understanding of oneself, one’s...

Content Diversity & Platform Development: Strategies for Supporting New Formats

Posted Feb 22, 2021

The following is based on a recent presentation given during the NISO webinar “Content Presentation: Diversity of Formats.” Silverchair hosts journals, books, proceedings, and many other content types, in addition...

Here to Stay: Planning for the Remote Hybrid Future

Posted Feb 12, 2021

My first introduction to remote work was in the early 2000s, when I started doing some HR consulting from my tiny apartment in DC. This was still during the time...

Content Clarity: Audit, Analysis, and Insight Into Your Content Library

Posted Feb 9, 2021

This guest blog is written by Marianne Calilhanna and Brian Trombley of Data Conversion Laboratory, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. It’s difficult to get an exact count of how...

The American Academy of Pediatrics Selects Silverchair to Host Its Publishing Platform

Posted Feb 8, 2021

Silverchair expands their partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics to host their ebook, journal, and member news content.

AOTA Renews Partnership with Silverchair

Posted Jan 25, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA and North Bethesda, MD) January 25, 2021 – Silverchair and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) announced today the extension of their strategic product development partnership, as well...

The American Medical Association and Silverchair Expand Collaboration with AMA Guides® Launch

Posted Jan 19, 2021

(Charlottesville, VA) January 19, 2021 – Silverchair announced today the launch of AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment® on the Silverchair Platform, an expansion of their collaboration with the...

2020 in Hindsight: A Silverchair Retrospective

Posted Jan 14, 2021

The success of Silverchair has always been based on the relationships we build, and for all the turmoil that 2020 brought, it also provided opportunities for us to deepen and...

The Society of Petroleum Engineers Launches OnePetro® on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Jan 12, 2021

Silverchair and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) announce the launch of their multi-publisher online library, OnePetro®, on the Silverchair Platform.

New Year’s Evolutions: Tips & Tricks for Publishers

Posted Jan 5, 2021

It’s the start of a new year, and for many of us, simply getting through 2020 is enough of an achievement. But if you are ready to hit the ground...

VIDEO BLOG: A behind-the-scenes interview about the new Silverchair Composer

Posted Dec 15, 2020

Silverchair recently announced the launch of Composer, a new authoring product that extends first-class publication treatment to content such as blogs, commercial or sponsored content, journalistic features, marketing pieces, news,...

Community Spotlight: Giving Back in the Year of Pandemic

Posted Dec 14, 2020

It’s the time of year when we turn attention to ways we can give back to our community and to those in need. This year has thrown into the spotlight...

Silverchair Drives Innovation with the Announcement of Three Major Product Tools

Posted Dec 10, 2020

Silverchair announces three major product developments that provide publishers with broader support for their content and deeper insights to meet business needs.

Introducing Silverchair Composer

Posted Dec 2, 2020

Silverchair announces the launch of Silverchair Composer, a market-leading new authoring product that allows publishers to bring even more of their content into a single user experience.

Zero-party data: Capturing user attention and selling Products

Posted Nov 24, 2020

The following is excerpted from the ConTech Week 2020 presentation of the same title. What is Zero-Party data? “Data that a customer intentionally and proactively shares with a brand,...

Fun Facts: Get to Know the Silverchair Team

Posted Nov 12, 2020

As Silverchair clients know, in each of our sprintly (every 3 weeks) platform release notes emails, we feature a spotlight on a Silverchair staff member. These spotlights include the “in...

Empathetic Leadership: How business leaders can build trust online

Posted Oct 29, 2020

This guest blog is written by Christopher Sprenger, Head of Solutions at Zapnito, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Empathy is the ability to...

AI vs IA: How Will Humans and Technologies Interplay in the Future of Scholarly Communication?

Posted Oct 28, 2020

Excerpts from CEO of Digital Science Daniel Hook's presentation about the preconceived biases, history, and advancement of AI.

The Importance of Original Content in Digital Marketing

Posted Oct 22, 2020

Content marketing requires a focus on the creation of unique content. Use a duplicate content checker to check for duplicate content online.

Efficient & Scalable: Three Areas to Focus on as You Adapt Your Publishing Business

Posted Oct 15, 2020

At last year’s Platform Strategies meeting, Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS, joined us for a discussion around the infrastructure, technology, strategies, and relationships needed to adapt to open access market changes successfully. The excerpt below centers around a question as relevant now as it was then: What should publishers be doing to make our processes more efficient and scalable?

Onward & Upward: SSP New Directions Seminar Recap

Posted Oct 8, 2020

At the "2020 SSP Virtual Seminar: New Directions in Scholarly Publishing," we connected with colleagues, asked questions of industry experts, and joked about missing stale conference-hall coffee. Here, we share our notes and takeaways from the sessions.

Lasting Effects – What the Pandemic Will & Won’t Change

Posted Sep 29, 2020

Change and adaptation have been a near constant in 2020, but which changes will we carry forward, and which are we doing only out of necessity? Hear insights from our July Platform Strategies Webinar Series event.

Client Spotlight: The American Medical Association / JAMA Network™

Posted Sep 8, 2020

Silverchair works with some of the most prestigious names in scholarly and professional information, spanning the worlds of professional societies and associations, university presses, commercial publishing, and government agencies. These...

Unified Platforms and the rise of Contextual Advertising

Posted Aug 28, 2020

This guest blog is written by Alexander Golubowitsch, Managing Director and Co-Founder at PubGrade, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Despite fluctuations in popularity over the past five to...

Open for Business: Open Access, Open Science, and the Silverchair Platform

Posted Aug 19, 2020

At its most basic definition, a publishing platform is a container for content designed specifically to meet the needs of the ways that individuals access and interact with the contents of that container. As far as access is...

Client Spotlight: The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

Posted Aug 11, 2020

How publishers can drive FAIR data excellence

Posted Aug 5, 2020

This guest blog is written by Alan Hyndman, Marketing Director at Figshare, a partner in the Silverchair Universe Program. In the last decade, we’ve seen repeated reports highlighting a lack of...

Charting the Future: Platform Development at Silverchair

Posted Aug 4, 2020

The Silverchair Platform Development Plan (SPDP) is comprised of four categories, with new platform functionality or enhancements released every three weeks. Our development plan is accessible to all clients, maximizing both transparency and flexibility for our community.

Coronavirus, text-to-speech, and the future of distance learning

Posted Jul 29, 2020

This guest blog is written by Amy Foxwell of ReadSpeaker, a partner in the Silverchair Universe Program. In these months of upheaval, one wonders if life will be the same after...

The Future of AI: Innovation, Monetization, & the Rise of China

Posted Jul 23, 2020

“I think the biggest global challenge for publishers is going to be the disruption that is coming from technology on all sides, both in terms of getting people to pay...

Thinking Holistically About Content: Society Street Webinar Recap

Posted Jul 21, 2020

In early July, Society Street hosted Paul Gee, Vice President of Product Management and Development for the JAMA Network, and Julie Gill, Vice President and General Manager for AMA Ed...

Silverchair Partners with IFIS to Support Research in the Sciences of Food & Health

Posted Jul 20, 2020

(Charlottesville, VA and Wokingham, UK) July 20, 2020 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with IFIS to host content from their renowned FSTA database. FSTA is the key resource for...

From Our Shelves: A Silverchair Reading List

Posted Jul 16, 2020

Summer is here and despite the fact that most of our “vacations” are taking us no further than our guest bedrooms, we’re making time to step away from work, rejuvenate,...

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Selects Silverchair to Host Resident Curriculum

Posted Jun 24, 2020

(Charlottesville, VA and Rosemont, IL) June 24, 2020 – Silverchair and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) announced today an agreement to develop and host the AAOS Orthopaedic Resident...

Using AI Tools for Recommendations

Posted Jun 17, 2020

This guest blog is written by Michael Upshall, Head of Sales and Business Development for UNSILO, a CACTUS brand, and a partner in the Silverchair Universe Program. Recommender systems are...

Content Marketing for Scholarly Publishers: Leveraging Your Strongest Asset

Posted Jun 3, 2020

Content marketing has replaced traditional advertising in nearly every industry. Scholarly publishers have a unique advantage in adapting to this trend, since the product itself is rich with content that can capture and hold the attention of a clearly defined audience and inspire them to action.

Analytics to Action: How Recent Changes to Google Analytics Affect How Publishers Are Able to Understand and Convert their Audiences

Posted Jun 1, 2020

This guest blog is written by Debbie Wilton, Marketing Manager for PSI, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. To know that an article was viewed or downloaded one hundred...

How AI Mimics the Complexity of the Human Mind in Discovery

Posted May 26, 2020

This guest blog is written by Manisha Bolina, Channel Partner Manager – International, at Yewno, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Discoverability of content, taxonomies and metadata have always been...

The Positive Side Effects of a Platform Migration

Posted May 18, 2020

Selecting the best platform for your organization and partnering with service providers who have deep experience results in a healthy digital transformation. This post explores the positive side effects publishers can experience during a platform migration.

Perspective: The Importance of Technology Partners in Times of Crisis

Posted May 15, 2020

In this report, we share ideas and insights from the Silverchair community on how to adapt to or negotiate through times of crisis.

Silverchair and University of California Press Launch Next Generation Journals Hosting Platform

Posted May 11, 2020

Silverchair and University of California Press announce the launch of UC Press’ 110,000+ article in 6000+ journal issues on the Silverchair Platform.

Virtual Culture Club: Hiring & Onboarding in a Remote Environment

Posted May 5, 2020

When asked what people like most about working at Silverchair, the top two responses are the culture and the people. Our culture isn’t something that just happened, it is something...

Silverchair Appoints Will Schweitzer Chief Product Officer

Posted Apr 24, 2020

The September 22, 2023 issue of Outsell incorrectly linked to this release. Please find the correct announcement here. (Charlottesville, VA) April 24, 2020 – Silverchair is pleased to announce the...

Altmetric vs. Dimensions Badges: Understanding the Full Story About Research

Posted Apr 24, 2020

This guest blog is written by Cathy Holland, Director, Global Publisher Business Development at Digital Science, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Here at Digital Science we are no...

Earth Day 2020: Sustaining a Sustainable Office Environment

Posted Apr 22, 2020

The office that I care for is now almost 100% remote. As Silverchair has settled into tele-working, perhaps a few folks are undergoing mild withdraw symptoms attributable to an aggressive...

Portland Press Launches New Site for Life Sciences Content on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Apr 9, 2020

(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) April 9, 2020 – Silverchair and Portland Press announced today the launch of Portland Press’ journal sites on the Silverchair Platform. Publishing world-leading research and...

Convert Readers to an Engaged Audience with Content Discovery

Posted Apr 7, 2020

This guest blog is written by Lea Aliperta Mourissoux, Head of Marketing at Bibblio, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. In the past few months we’ve witnessed an increase...

The Company of Biologists Selects Silverchair to Host Leading Biology Publications

Posted Mar 31, 2020

Silverchair and The Company of Biologists today announced a new partnership to host the leading, peer-reviewed journals published by The Company of Biologists, improving user experience and maximizing the discoverability of their content for the biological community.

Why online-only event communities don’t have to be a consolation prize: 10 reasons why they beat in-person events

Posted Mar 24, 2020

Silverchair Universe partner Zapnito looks at why virtual events can be better than in-person events.

Allen Press and Silverchair Launch Meridian, Expanding Digital Publishing Technology for Society Publishers

Posted Feb 13, 2020

(LAWRENCE, Kan. and CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) – February 13, 2020 – Allen Press, Inc. and Silverchair announced today the launch of Meridian, a digital publishing platform and service of Allen Press,...

Silverchair and Cadmore Media Launch Enhanced Video and Transcript Site for Platform Strategies Content

Posted Feb 12, 2020

(Charlottesville, VA and Bethesda, MD) February 12, 2020 – Silverchair and Cadmore Media announced today the launch of a dedicated site hosting the video content for Platform Strategies, Silverchair’s industry...

Thank you for joining the Silverchair community

Posted Jan 13, 2020

As another year has drawn to an end, we would like to thank you for putting your trust in us by joining our cohort of prestigious clients. The success of...

The American Medical Association (AMA) Extends Partnership with Silverchair for the JAMA Network

Posted Dec 12, 2019

Silverchair and the American Medical Association (AMA) announced today that they have extended their partnership on the JAMA Network through 2023.

Rockefeller University Press Launches Leading Biomedical Research Journals on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Dec 11, 2019

Rockefeller University Press (RUP) and Silverchair announced today the launch of RUP’s leading biomedical research journals - Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and Journal of General Physiology (JGP) - on the Silverchair Platform.

Cadmore Media Joins the Silverchair Universe to Offer Enhanced Streaming Media Experience on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Dec 4, 2019

Silverchair announced today the addition of Cadmore Media, a company providing streaming media publishing services, to the Silverchair Universe, the Silverchair Platform’s certified partner network.

Silverchair Welcomes scite to the Silverchair Universe to Help Improve How Publishers are Using Citations

Posted Nov 25, 2019

Silverchair announced today the addition of scite, a company that enables anyone to see how a scientific report has been cited, to the Silverchair Universe, the Silverchair Platform’s certified partner network.

AACN Launches Enhanced Site for Critical Care Nursing Journals on Silverchair Platform

Posted Nov 22, 2019

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and Silverchair announced today the launch of AACN’s peer-reviewed journals on the Silverchair Platform.

Silverchair Releases New Analysis and Content Service to Support Text and Data Mining

Posted Nov 21, 2019

Silverchair announced today the release of a new Analysis and Content Service to support scholarly text and data mining. The new service represents a significant enhancement of the Silverchair Platform Text and Data Mining Interface first released in 2018.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers Selects Silverchair to Host OnePetro®

Posted Nov 14, 2019

(Charlottesville, VA and Richardson, TX) November 14, 2019 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) to host their multi-publisher online library, OnePetro®.

Data Conversion Laboratory Joins the Silverchair Universe to Improve Content Reliability While Minimizing Costs for Clients

Posted Sep 19, 2019

(Charlottesville, VA and Fresh Meadows, NY) September 19, 2019 – Silverchair announced today the addition of Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), a company providing data and content transformation services, to the...

Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 7

Posted Sep 3, 2019

Silverchair’s Platform Strategies meeting, an industry conference exploring the intersection of business strategy and technology, will be held in New York City on September 25 and 26. In this series...

Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 6

Posted Aug 29, 2019

Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 5

Posted Aug 27, 2019

Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 4

Posted Aug 22, 2019

Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 3

Posted Aug 20, 2019

Platform Strategies 2019 – A Compelling Agenda is Taking Shape

Posted Aug 9, 2019

Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 2

Posted Aug 5, 2019

Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 1

Posted Jul 19, 2019

Silverchair and University of California Press Announce Next Generation Platform for UC Press’s Diverse Journal Portfolio

Posted Jul 16, 2019

(Charlottesville, VA and Oakland, CA) July 16, 2019 – Silverchair announced today that University of California Press (UC Press) has selected the Silverchair Platform for its journals hosting solution. As one of the six largest university presses in the United States, and the only one associated with a public institution...

Plan S: Why Collaboration Will Prove Key to Successful Compliance

Posted Apr 22, 2019

This guest blog is written by Inez van Korlaar, Marketing Director at Dimensions (part of Digital Science), a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. With the Plan S 2020 deadline now...

AACN Partners with Silverchair to Upgrade Key Critical Care Nursing Journals

Posted Mar 5, 2019

(Charlottesville, Va. and Aliso Viejo, Calif.) March 5, 2019 – Silverchair announced today an agreement with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) to migrate its award-winning and nationally recognized...

Rockefeller University Press Selects Silverchair to Host Journals

Posted Feb 26, 2019

(Charlottesville, VA and New York, NY) February 26, 2019 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with Rockefeller University Press (RUP) to host their leading biomedical research hybrid journals – Journal...

Silverchair Invests in Platform and Innovation with Two New Product Executives

Posted Feb 7, 2019

(Charlottesville, VA) February 7, 2019 – Silverchair announced today the appointments of Will Schweitzer as Senior Vice President, Product Management, and Dustin Smith as Director of New Product Development and...

The Vital Importance of Discovery in Scholarly Publishing

Posted Feb 7, 2019

This guest blog is written by Bert Carelli, Director of Partnerships at TrendMD, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. How do researchers stay on top of new developments in a fast-moving...

Developing Developers: The Paths to Coding Software as a Career

Posted Jan 29, 2019

If a healthy salary, job satisfaction, and super-low unemployment rate are high on your priority list, a career as a software developer might be for you. For the second year...

The American Society of Hematology Selects Silverchair to Host Premier Clinical and Scientific Research

Posted Jan 28, 2019

(Charlottesville, VA and Washington, DC) January 28, 2019 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to host its esteemed content on the Silverchair Platform....

The Data Opportunities for Publishers in 2019

Posted Jan 23, 2019

This guest blog is written by Alan Hyndman, Marketing Director at Figshare, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. In recent years, we have seen the topic of research data increase in...

ASM International Launches a Unified Materials Information Digital Library on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Jan 16, 2019

(Charlottesville, VA and Cleveland, OH) January 16, 2019 – ASM International and Silverchair announced today the launch of the ASM Digital Library on the Silverchair Platform. The ASM Digital Library...

New Content from GeoScienceWorld Now Live on the Silverchair Platform: GeoArabia Archive and Special Publications

Posted Jan 15, 2019

(McLean, VA) January 15, 2019 – GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is pleased to announce the addition of the journal GeoArabia archive (1996 – 2015) and special publications to its domain-leading collection of...

Inspire, Catalyze, and Support: the Silverchair Workplace

Posted Jan 11, 2019

The start of a new year provides a chance to reflect and to set goals, both personally and professionally. Below, Silverchair’s Chief Operating Officer offers his ruminations on the Silverchair...

Allen Press and Silverchair Announce Partnership to Expand Online Publishing Technology for Society Publishers

Posted Dec 13, 2018

(LAWRENCE, Kan. and CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) – December 13, 2018 – Allen Press, Inc. and Silverchair are pleased to announce a new online publishing partnership. Beginning in 2019, Silverchair will be...

Protecting Your Work: Tracking Content Use for Plagiarism and Citation

Posted Dec 6, 2018

This guest blog is written by Brooke Weinbaum, Head of Marketing at Copyleaks, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Writing content of any kind requires a lot of work,...

Silverchair Delivers Text-to-Speech via ReadSpeaker Integration

Posted Nov 29, 2018

McGraw-Hill Education Launches ReadSpeaker Functionality on the Silverchair Platform November 29, 2018 (CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA & FOXBORO, MA): Silverchair announced today that it has partnered with ReadSpeaker to offer market-leading...

Silverchair Update on Google Scholar Initiatives & Partnership

Posted Nov 27, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA) November 27, 2018 – Silverchair today announced an update on its participation in several industry initiatives led by Google Scholar and implemented on the Silverchair Platform. In 2018,...

Agency, Motivation, and Learning

Posted Nov 20, 2018

A group of Silverchairians (myself included) recently attended the SWITCH ON! Summit, organized by Charlottesville Women in Tech. The summit focused on igniting your professional tech network by learning, collaborating,...

Opportunities in Data: Using, Verifying, and Protecting Information in an Era When “Data is King”

Posted Nov 1, 2018

This guest blog is written by Debbie Wilton, Marketing Manager for PSI, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. We collectively operate in a world where “data is king.” The...

Code Ocean Joins the Silverchair Universe to Enhance Reproducibility and Momentum of Research

Posted Oct 29, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA) October 29, 2018 – Silverchair announced today the addition of Code Ocean to the Silverchair Universe, a framework for rapidly integrating complementary products and services with the Silverchair...

Why a Seamless Learner Experience is Critical for Continuing Education

Posted Oct 26, 2018

This guest blog is written by Adam Green of Rievent, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. When it comes to continuing education (CE) for professionals, we live in the era of more....

Reflections from Platform Strategies 2018, Part 3

Posted Oct 19, 2018

I joined Silverchair as President earlier this year, and it’s my privilege to offer some reflections on Silverchair’s recent Platform Strategies meeting. In our opening panel of Technology Leadership, Max...

Profeza Joins the Silverchair Universe to Encourage Reuse of Research Content

Posted Oct 17, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA) October 17, 2018 – Silverchair announced today the addition of Profeza to the Silverchair Universe, a framework for rapidly integrating complementary products and services with the Silverchair Platform....

MIT Press Partners with Silverchair to Launch MIT Press Direct eBook Platform

Posted Oct 15, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA and Cambridge, MA) October 15, 2018 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with the MIT Press to develop and host a new eBooks platform, MIT Press Direct. Known...

Reflections from Platform Strategies 2018, Part 2

Posted Oct 12, 2018

Recordings and slides from Platform Strategies 2018 are now available on our website, and we’re delighted to share more reflections from our team on the incredible insights shared during the...

Reflections from Platform Strategies 2018, Part 1

Posted Oct 5, 2018

A week has now passed since Silverchair’s inaugural Platform Strategies meeting, and we are still reeling from the excellent content, the extremely engaged audience, and the fantastic insights that arose...

Portland Press Selects Silverchair to Deliver Their Bioscience Content

Posted Sep 26, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) September 26, 2018 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with Portland Press, the wholly owned subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, to host its life sciences...

Silverchair Launches DermTrainer Tool for Advanced Training and Diagnosis in Dermatology

Posted Sep 11, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA) September 11, 2018 – Silverchair today announced the launch of DermTrainer, a sophisticated tool developed and tested by dermatologists for teaching clinical dermatology. The tool will debut September...

Susan Pastore Joins Silverchair as Director of Business Development

Posted Sep 5, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA) September 5, 2018 – Silverchair, the leading independent platform provider for scholarly and professional publishers, announced today the appointment of Susan Pastore as Director, Business Development. This newly...

Software Company in a Hardware Store: A History of the Silverchair Offices

Posted Jul 30, 2018

Since our founding in 1993, Silverchair has been located in Charlottesville, Virginia, employing over 120 professionals with a unique combination of skills – technology, product design and development expertise, and...

Silverchair Client Achievements: Impact Factors, Awards, and Highlights

Posted Jul 26, 2018

The recently released 2018 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) featured 11,655 journal listings in 234 disciplines from 80 countries. 10 million references were used in calculating the important industry indicator, the...

IWA Publishing Launches Next-Generation Digital Product Platform with Silverchair

Posted Jul 10, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) July 10, 2018 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and IWA Publishing announced today the launch of IWA Publishing’s acclaimed water and environmental resources on the...

Silverchair Spotlight: A Q&A with Silverchair President, Tim Barton

Posted Jul 2, 2018

Silverchair recently welcomed Tim Barton as our new President. Below, learn more about his background, his experience at Silverchair thus far, and his vision for the future. Can you...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses Launches on the Silverchair Platform, Advancing Access to Perioperative Nursing Resources

Posted Jun 14, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA and Denver, CO) June 14, 2018 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) announced today the launch of AORN’s acclaimed perioperative nursing...

GeoScienceWorld Announces Significant Content Additions and Welcomes New Society Services Clients on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Jun 12, 2018

(McLean, VA and Charlottesville, VA) June 12, 2018 – GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is pleased to welcome two new Society Services clients — the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the...

Tim Barton Joins Silverchair as President

Posted May 29, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA) May 29, 2018 – Silverchair Information Systems, a leading provider of technology platforms and services for the professional and scholarly knowledge industry, today announced that Tim Barton has...

The Path to Annotation for Researchers and Publishers

Posted May 22, 2018

This guest blog is written by Heather Staines, Director of Partnerships at Hypothesis, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. With the revelation of illegal Facebook data use by Cambridge Analytica and...

ASM International Selects Silverchair Platform for Unified Materials Information Digital Library

Posted May 16, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA and Cleveland, OH) May 16, 2018 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) announced today a partnership with ASM International (ASM) to develop a unified hosting solution for ASM’s authoritative...

The Need for Engaging, Immediate Citation Reporting

Posted May 14, 2018

This guest blog is written by Catherine Williams, CMO of Altmetric & Dimensions, both partners in the Silverchair Universe program. There are days when it seems the reporting will never...

Variable Font Technology

Posted May 9, 2018

Until recently, font technology had been relatively stagnant since the 90s. A new joint venture created by Google, Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft, however, has produced an exciting development that will...

Agile Development at Silverchair: Program Increments

Posted May 4, 2018

In 2017 Silverchair made significant strides to reaffirm the Agile processes and principles each team follows from sprint to sprint with role clarity, processes, and metrics. As a result, our...

Accessibility at Silverchair

Posted Mar 23, 2018

Silverchair has prioritized accessibility internally for years, and aims for AA WCAG compliance in all of our online products. Read more about our process.

Silverchair Releases Text and Data Mining Interface Optimized for Machine Learning and AI

Posted Mar 21, 2018

(Charlottesville, VA) March 21, 2018 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) announced today the release of a new Text and Data Mining Interface to the Silverchair Platform. Designed for large-scale data...

UX Design at Silverchair

Posted Feb 2, 2018

Silverchair’s User Experience (UX) team touches virtually every aspect of the product development lifecycle and is with each project from inception through to launch. Learn more about the team's areas of focus.

17 of the Altmetric Top 100 Articles of 2017 Delivered via Silverchair Platform

Posted Dec 15, 2017

Altmetric has released its highly anticipated Top 100 list for 2017, featuring 17 articles hosted on the Silverchair Platform. The list collects the most-discussed research based on weighted rankings from...

Duke University Press Launches New Digital Content Site on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Nov 28, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA and Durham, NC) November 27, 2017 –Duke University Press (DUP) and Silverchair Information Systems announced today the launch of DUP’s extensive collection of scholarly journals, books, and electronic...

Silverchair Universe: Video Blog Update

Posted Nov 27, 2017

Wes Royer, Director of Product, gives background on our exciting new program, what we’ve been working on, and what to look for in 2018. “The Silverchair Universe is intentionally a...

GeoScienceWorld Launches on The Silverchair Platform, Advancing Earth Science Research and Discovery

Posted Nov 21, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA and McLean, VA) November 21, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems and GeoScienceWorld (GSW) today announced the launch of the new GeoScienceWorld.org on the Silverchair Platform, host to GSW’s...

Silverchair’s Design & Marketing Teams Take Home Awards

Posted Nov 17, 2017

Last night at the American Marketing Association’s Central Virginia Excellence in Marketing Awards, Silverchair took home the title in both the categories for which we submitted work: Broadcast Marketing and...

Yewno Joins the Silverchair Universe, Offering Expanded Discoverability and Insight to Publishers on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Nov 8, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA and Redwood City, CA) November 8, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) announced today the addition of Yewno to the Silverchair Universe, providing Yewno’s unique machine-learning technology to...

IWA Publishing and Silverchair Announce Partnership to Develop Next-Generation Digital Product Platform

Posted Nov 7, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) November 7, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and IWA Publishing announced today a new partnership to host and enrich IWA Publishing’s acclaimed water and...

The Benefits & Balance of Scale: Strategies 2017 Recap

Posted Oct 19, 2017

Last month’s Silverchair Strategies was a rewarding day of interaction and feedback, stimulating discussions, and catching up with industry colleagues at the beautiful Apella Event Space in NYC. Slides and...

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Extends Partnership with Silverchair through 2020

Posted Oct 18, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA and Rockville, MD) October 18, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) announced today that they have extended their partnership...

ASME, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Launches Two New Sites on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Oct 6, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA and New York, NY) October 6, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) announce the launch of two new journals on the...

The SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology & The Seismological Society of America Launch New Publications Portals on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Oct 4, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA, Tulsa, OK, and Albany, CA) October 4, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems, in partnership with the SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) and the Seismological Society of America...

Introducing the Silverchair Universe: A New Framework for Rapid Integration of Complementary Products and Services with the Silverchair Platform

Posted Oct 4, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA) October 2, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) announced today the launch of the Silverchair Universe, a new framework for rapidly integrating complementary products and services with the...

Silverchair Insights: ALPSP Video Blog

Posted Sep 22, 2017

Silverchair just returned from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) annual meeting in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, which we attended as a Silver sponsor. Chief Product Officer Jake...

Silverchair Insights: Identifying “Toil”

Posted Sep 14, 2017

Silverchair’s most recent company meeting featured a session introducing employees to the idea of “toil.” CTO Stuart Leitch picked up the term coined by Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team...

Silverchair Insights: Scrum Fundamentals & Agile Governance Survey

Posted Aug 8, 2017

As part of our ongoing commitment to improving our internal processes, Silverchair recently conducted an internal survey on Scrum Fundamentals & Agile Governance. Surveys such as these are critical in...

Impact and Beyond: Silverchair’s Publishing Landscape

Posted Aug 3, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA) August 3, 2017 – The recent release of the 2016 Journal Citation Reports featured impressive rankings by numerous Silverchair-hosted journals. The results of this key industry assessment reflect...

Silverchair Insights: Incident Management at Silverchair: Root Cause Analysis

Posted Jul 26, 2017

Over the last few months, Silverchair has improved and strengthened our Incident Management Processes. One piece of the Incident Management processes that we identified for improvement was our ability to determine...

From the Silverchair blog: “Why?”—A Question to Define Success & Add Value

Posted Jul 18, 2017

If you have young kids, chances are you’ve lost patience with the number of times they’ve told you “No!” or asked you “Why?” But child development professionals will tell you that the use...

The Geological Society of America Launches New Publications Portal on the Silverchair Platform

Posted Jul 5, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA & Boulder, CO) July 5, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems and the Geological Society of America, Inc. (GSA), in partnership with GeoScienceWorld (GSW), today announced the launch of...

Silverchair Insights: Communities of Practice

Posted Jun 28, 2017

There’s an old saying – Two heads are better than one. Stands to reason that multiple heads working together in common cause to share ideas would be even better than...

Zapnito and Silverchair Partner to Create and Enrich Knowledge Communities

Posted Jun 23, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) June 23, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and Zapnito announced today a new partnership to enable STM and humanities publishers, professional societies, and other...

The SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology & The Seismological Society of America Partner with Silverchair for New Publications Portals

Posted Jun 16, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA, Tulsa, OK, and Albany, CA) June 16, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems today announced partnerships with the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) and the Seismological Society of America...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and Silverchair Announce Partnership to Advance Access to Perioperative Nursing Resources

Posted Jun 9, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA and Denver, CO) June 9, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) announced today a new partnership to host and enrich...

Silverchair Named “Business of the Year” at CBIC Awards Gala

Posted May 19, 2017

Silverchair is honored to have been named “Business of the Year” at the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC) Awards Gala last night, and is proud to be in the excellent...

Economic Geology Launches on the Silverchair Platform

Posted May 9, 2017

(Charlottesville, VA & Littleton, CO) May 9, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems and the Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. (SEG), in partnership with GeoScienceWorld (GSW), today announce the launch of...

Silverchair Insights: Provider vs. Partner

Posted May 5, 2017

Last month I had the opportunity to give a presentation to an audience of publishers, STM customers, and providers as part of the Association of American Publishers’ Learn, Connect, Grow series. The...

Silverchair Insights: Getting Behind the Wheel – Professional Goals Setting

Posted Apr 21, 2017

With 2017 almost 1/3 of the way done, now is a good time to take stock of the goals laid out as the year began. It is an ongoing part of one’s...

Silverchair Insights: Working in Teams

Posted Apr 13, 2017

At any company where small scrum teams operate, the typical buzzwords are teamwork, collaboration, commitment, cross-functional, and self-managed. (Bleh!, buzzwords.) But what about tension, disagreement, conflict, and debate? From this article,...

The Geological Society of America Partners with Silverchair for New Publications Portal

Posted Mar 2, 2017

Silverchair and The Geological Society of America, Inc. (GSA) announce a new partnership to launch a fully integrated GSA publications portal on the Silverchair Platform for GSA’s journals and eBooks.

ASME, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Extends Relationship with Silverchair

Posted Feb 27, 2017

Silverchair announces that it has extended its partnership with The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) until 2020.

Society of Economic Geologists Partners with Silverchair for New Publications Portal

Posted Feb 13, 2017

Silverchair and the Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. (SEG) announce a new partnership to launch a fully integrated SEG Publications portal on the Silverchair Platform.

GeoScienceWorld and Silverchair Announce Partnership to Advance Earth Sciences Research and Discovery

Posted Feb 8, 2017

Silverchair and GeoScienceWorld (GSW) announce a new partnership to redevelop and enhance GSW’s domain-leading collection of earth science research on the Silverchair Platform.

Duke University Press Selects Silverchair for New Digital Products Platform

Posted Jan 18, 2017

Silverchair and Duke University Press announce a new publishing technology partnership to redevelop and host Duke University Press’s extensive collection of scholarly journals, books, and electronic collections in the humanities and social sciences.

17 of the Altmetric Top 100 Articles of 2016 Delivered via Silverchair Platform

Posted Jan 4, 2017

The Silverchair platform delivered 17 of the 100 top-scoring articles and 4 of the top 8. This includes the #1 article, the first scholarly article authored by a sitting U.S. President and the highest scoring article ever!

Silverchair and The American Academy of Dermatology partner to launch new Dermatology Patient Education website

Posted Nov 2, 2016

Silverchair and the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) announce the launch of the AAD’s Dermatology Patient Education website.

Oxford University Press Announces Agreement with Silverchair to Accelerate its Ambitious Technology Vision

Posted Oct 1, 2015

The Global Academic Division of Oxford University Press (OUP) announces it has entered into an agreement with Silverchair to migrate its extensive portfolio of journals and many of its online products to a new publishing platform powered by Silverchair’s SCM technology.

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