(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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 of...
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...
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...
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 to...
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. Always...
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...
2023 marks 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 publishing. Below,...
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...
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. When...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 on...
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...
(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...
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...
We are so excited to be hosting our popular industry event, Platform Strategies, in person this year! This event will be held in Washington, DC on September 27th. Platform Strategies...
We are excited to be attending and sponsoring this year's SSP New Directions this October! This year, the seminar is about Navigating the Shifting Sands: Managing Disruptions in Scholarly Communications. This...
We're looking forward to attending and sponsoring this year's NISO Plus Forum! This year, the theme is AI & Machine Learning in Scholarly Publishing: Services, Data, and Ethics. We're excited...
We're looking forward to attending and sponsoring the OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing this September! This conference will serve as a platform for the open access community to...
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. These...
(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...
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...
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 highly...
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,...
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...
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 May...
(Charlottesville, VA) May 18, 2023 – Silverchair announced today that Betsy Donohue will join the company as Senior Vice President for Business Development. Betsy joins Silverchair as a strategic business development leader with...
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...
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 growing...
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,...
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....
(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,...
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...
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...
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 Working...
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 years,...
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 events...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
We'll be attending the Charleston Library Conference this year! This conference brings together librarians, publishers, consultants, and vendors of library materials. With a variety of session formats and topics, including...
Silverchair is looking forward to attending and being a Gold Sponsor at the Frankfurt Book Fair this October! We'll be in attendance with our very own stand. We'd love to...
Silverchair is delighted to be a Silver Sponsor at the ALPSP Annual Conference. This year, topics such as Open Access, Open Science, researcher behavior, and so much more will be...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
(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...
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...
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 this...
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....
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,...
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...
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 take...
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...
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 for...
(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 thought...
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 opportunities...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 transformation...
(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 Vice...
(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...
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...
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....
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...
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, our teams...
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 AIPP’s...
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...
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...
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....
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...
(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...
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...
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 of...
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...
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...
(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 1913,...
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...
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...
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....
(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 publishes...
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...
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...
Silverchair has recently expanded its Sales team with the addition of Walker Swain, Business Development Manager. Walker is excited to get to know the industry and members of our community,...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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 us...
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 find...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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 in...
(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...
(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...
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 solution...
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 are...
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 Starter...
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...
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...
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...
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 (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,...
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...
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 to...
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...
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 took...
(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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
(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...
(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...
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...
(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,...
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...
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 areas...
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 areas...
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...
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 we...
(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...
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 areas...
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...
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 areas...
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 to...
(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 aid...
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...
(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. Reflecting...
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...
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 me....
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 group,...
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 to...
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...
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 many...
Silverchair expands their partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics to host their ebook, journal, and member news content....
(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...
(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...
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...
Silverchair and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) announce the launch of their multi-publisher online library, OnePetro®, on the Silverchair Platform....
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...
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,...
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 announces three major product developments that provide publishers with broader support for their content and deeper insights to meet business needs....
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....
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, which can...
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...
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 understand another...
Excerpts from CEO of Digital Science Daniel Hook's presentation about the preconceived biases, history, and advancement of AI....
Content marketing requires a focus on the creation of unique content. Use a duplicate content checker to check for duplicate content online....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ten...
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...
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...
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 reproducibility...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
(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 searching...
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,...
(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...
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 not...
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...
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 or...
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 among...
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...
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 announce the launch of UC Press’ 110,000+ article in 6000+ journal issues on the Silverchair Platform....
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...
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 appointment...
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 stranger...
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...
(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 reviews...
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 in...
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...
Silverchair Universe partner Zapnito looks at why virtual events can be better than in-person events....
(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 the American Medical Association (AMA) announced today that they have extended their partnership on the JAMA Network through 2023....
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...
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 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...
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 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...
(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®....
(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...
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 of...
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 of...
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 of...
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 of...
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 of...
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 of...
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 of...
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 of...
(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...
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 less...
(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...
(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...
(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...
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 field? ...
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...
(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. For...
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 importance...
(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...
(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...
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...
(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...
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, from...
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 text-to-speech capabilities...
(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,...
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,...
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 data...
(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...
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. More professionals...
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 Gabriel...
(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....
(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 for...
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...
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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
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...
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...
(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 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 give us...
(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...
(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...
(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...
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 the...
(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...
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 end....
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
(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...
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 part...
(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...
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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
(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...
(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...
(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 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...
(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...
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...
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...
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, 'If...
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....
Silverchair announces that it has extended its partnership with The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) until 2020....
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....
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....
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...
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....
Silverchair and the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) announce the launch of the AAD’s Dermatology Patient Education website....
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...