At Silverchair, our approach to AI has been driven by transparency, collaboration with publishers, and a commitment to delivering practical solutions that enhance rather than replace human expertise. As part of our commitment to shared learning, we've published content throughout the year to share our wins and challenges, to give insight into our plans and processes, and to invite ongoing conversation around AI's role in scholarly publishing.
Here's a look back at some of the most popular AI-related content we've shared throughout 2025, reflecting our ongoing work with the scholarly publishing community to navigate this transformative period.
Reports and Strategic Analysis
- REPORT: 2025 Publishing Tech Trends (January 2025) — In the fourth annual report from Silverchair and Hum, sixteen publishing leaders and consultants weighed in on their predictions for 2025 and beyond, with AI and data-driven strategies taking center stage. (Check back in January for the 2026 edition!)
- REPORT: 2025 Future of Peer Review (September 2025) — This comprehensive inaugural report explored how AI and other technological forces will transform peer review, examining reviewer behavior trends, research integrity implications, and imagined futures for the peer review function.
Thought Leadership & Insights
- Tech Trends Deep Dive: Compelling Use Cases for AI (April 2025) — According to the 2025 Tech Trends contributors, AI's most compelling use cases in publishing include improving workflow efficiency, enhancing personalization, and democratizing access to tools and content—predictions we've seen become a reality throughout the year.
- Navigating Reality in the Age of AI: A Scholarly Publishing Perspective (June 2025) — If we can't trust our senses with everyday media, how does this "suspension of belief" affect scholarly publishing, where accuracy and trust are everything?
- The Coming Inflection Point: AI as Science’s Gatekeeper (September 2025) — As agentic AI systems mature, we're approaching a critical juncture in scientific publishing. Our CTO looked at the many changes facing publishers and asked, how will we shape the future of AI in our industry?
- The Future of AI-Enhanced Peer Review (September 2025) — Following Stuart Leitch's examination of how agentic AI systems are transitioning from optional tools to essential infrastructure, this blog dug into the practical realities of this transformation in peer review, addressing what publishers can actually do to prepare for changes already underway.
- From Prototypes to Production: How Silverchair's AI Lab Became a Client Innovation Engine (October 2025) — AI Team Tech Lead Jeremy Little explored how the AI Lab's Playground methodology evolved from experimental prototypes into a collaborative innovation engine, detailing the journey from OUP's AI Discovery Assistant and LawPro to Dynamic Discovery and the expansion into ScholarOne workflows.
- One Year In: ScholarOne & Silverchair's Shared Journey Forward (November 2025) — Will Schweitzer reflected on how AI for peer review emerged as one of five key priorities driving ScholarOne's roadmap, with the AI Playground extending to ScholarOne and the Editor AI Console beta poised to streamline reviewer guidance and manuscript assessment.
- Demystifying Model Context Protocol (MCP) (December 2025) — As AI capabilities evolve from simple question-and-answer tools to sophisticated agents that can interact with systems and data, we need new infrastructure to support these interactions – and that’s where MCP comes in. This blog breaks down the how, what, and why publishers should care about this new tool.
- Teaching AI with AI: How Silverchair Built a Scalable Skills Development Program (December 2025) — As artificial intelligence reshapes companies across industries around the globe, organizations now face the challenge of rapidly training their workforce to harness AI's potential while ensuring consistent, quality adoption across diverse roles. At Silverchair, we developed an innovative solution that leverages AI itself as the teacher, creating a comprehensive skills development program in which Claude is both the subject and the instructor.
Product Launches & Partnerships
- Silverchair Expands Universe Program to Accelerate Platform Integration & Innovation — The expanded Universe partner program now includes ScholarOne partnerships and recognizes vendors providing AI-driven personalization alongside other complementary products and services.
- Silverchair's AI Lab Delivers Oxford Academic AI Discovery Assistant for Dynamic Research Support — Working closely with Oxford University Press, Silverchair launched the AI Discovery Assistant that enhances search experiences through intelligent, context-aware results accompanied by AI-generated summaries.
- Silverchair Launches AI-Powered Dynamic Discovery on the Silverchair Platform — Building on earlier prototypes, Dynamic Discovery uses advanced RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) frameworks to transform how researchers find relevant scholarly content through natural language queries.
- Silverchair Expands Integration Opportunities with ScholarOne Relay API — The new Relay API enables seamless two-way integrations in ScholarOne Manuscripts. Throughout the year, we've announced many new partners who will leverage the API to deliver AI tools and services.
- Silverchair Expands AI Playground to ScholarOne Manuscripts — Silverchair extended its successful AI Playground to ScholarOne Manuscripts for active experimentation with editors and publishers, creating a controlled environment for testing AI applications that streamline manuscript review processes while maintaining ethical, transparent approaches.
As we reflect on 2025, it's clear that the scholarly publishing community is moving beyond the experimental phase of AI adoption toward practical, value-driven implementations. Throughout this year, we've remained committed to transparency in our AI development, collaborative innovation with our publisher partners, and a focus on augmenting human judgment rather than replacing it. The conversations, pilots, and partnerships documented in these pieces represent not just Silverchair's AI journey, but the collective progress of a community working together to shape how these powerful technologies serve scholarship.
Looking ahead to 2026, we're energized by the foundation we've built and the opportunities that lie ahead for continued innovation in service of the scholarly publishing ecosystem, so stay tuned for more!