This September, Silverchair is again hosting in-person opportunities for our clients to connect with our team and with one another for a day of learning. Forum Connect: Silverchair Platform (formerly the Fall Forum) takes...
This September, Silverchair is again hosting in-person opportunities for our clients to connect with our team and with one another for a day of learning. Forum Connect: ScholarOne Manuscripts (formerly the ScholarOne Summit) takes place on Thursday, September 24, 2026 at Eaton Workshop...
For the Silverchair team, summer not only means vacations and gardening, but also ramping up preparations for Platform Strategies and our Fall client events (Forum Connect). Strategies is back in Washington,...
We will be in attendance online for NISO Plus 2026 Global/Online to address the key issues facing our community of librarians, publishers, researchers, and more. To learn more about this conference,...
Join us for the 2026 Seminar: New Directions in Scholarly Publishing to explore how stakeholders can collectively define the structures, standards, and values that will guide the next era of...
We will be in Croatia for PubMET 2026 to join researchers, publishers, librarians, and policymakers to explore the evolving landscape on scholarly communication. If you're in attendance, please email [email protected] to schedule a...
Join us online for the ISMTE 2026 North American Virtual Event to partake in more than 20 live sessions as well as multiple opportunities to network and interact. To learn more...
The following is a guest post from GetFTR, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Researchers rarely start their journey on your publishing platform. They might find an article through Web...
(Charlottesville, VA) July 7, 2026 – Silverchair today announced the launch of Bioscientifica’s new journals platform, built on the Silverchair Platform. The new site gives the global endocrinology research community...
You may be aware of the metaphor doing the rounds in scholarly publishing circles right now: impressions, visibility, AI surfacing of content are represented by the upper jaws of the...
(Charlottesville, VA and Itasca, IL) July 1, 2026 – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Silverchair today announced the launch of “Red Book® AI Assistant”, an AI-powered clinical support...
Last week's Publisher Working Group focused on ScholarOne's next AI feature: a citation checking tool built into the submission workflow. During the session, we tested assumptions on where citation checks matter, what...
Paradigm Publishing Services, a division of De Gruyter Brill, has integrated the Author Connect service across a diverse portfolio of society and association titles. Below, read how they leverage the services to...
Integration of EditorialPilot with ScholarOne enables automated quality and research integrity checks directly within the editorial workflow (Charlottesville, VA) June 25, 2026 - Integra, a global leader in publishing and digital...
Welcome to Under Review: the Escape Room! Countless submissions you’ve abandoned midway through, a dozen journals and more rejections, and not a single password you can remember. Behind door one: a login screen that doesn't recognize your institutional credentials....
Peer review has existed for roughly 360 years. In that time, it was reformed, digitized, expanded, and declared in crisis so many times that the reforms and the crises have...
Last year, Stuart and I wrote about modernizing ScholarOne: the strategy, the reasoning, the long view. We described what we intended to do. Now feels like the right time to check back in and share our progress and the unexpected...
At Silverchair, we support our ScholarOne clients in a few different ways — email, logged cases, live chat — and this year we added one more: a chatbot. It's just one new piece of the work we've been doing to serve you better. Since January, it's helped...
This Spring, at a security conference, a researcher from Anthropic gave a short demonstration. He pointed an AI coding assistant at Ghost, a popular open-source publishing platform, and gave it one instruction: find a vulnerability....
It is a well-known fact in the complex, slightly mystical ecology of modern business that Information, left entirely to its own devices, will naturally seek out the most complicated route...
There's a reason I keep coming back to SSP every year, and it has everything to do with the people. Scholarly publishing is, at its core, a relationship business, and no...
Famous composers have always been a part of our lives: Bach, Beethoven, Freddie Mercury, and of course, Silverchair Composer. While the latter may not be as famous or flashy, we know how important it is for many...
I’m writing this somewhere over the Pacific, on my way home from two weeks in Asia. After spending time with our growing team in Beijing, presenting the 2026 Future of Peer Review Report to a packed conference in Changchun, and visiting long standing ScholarOne partners in Tokyo, I’ve been thinking about how unimaginable this trip...
Publishers have good reasons to be cautious about new technology rollouts. You've seen "seamless transitions" that weren't, managed the fallout when authors land somewhere unfamiliar, and been left with the consequences. Migrating to ScholarOne Gateway takes all of that...
(Charlottesville, VA) June 9, 2026 – Silverchair, the leading independent platform partner for scholarly publishers and professional societies, today announced that The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) has selected ScholarOne Conferences to manage its future conference abstract and...
One of the concerns we hear from publishers considering a migration is the disruption and effect it will have on their team, especially for society publishers with a small staff. We've...
The questions landing on an in-house counsel's desk in scholarly publishing look nothing like they did five years ago. Today, they're about AI governance, cross-border data flows, and intellectual property...
The competition for high-quality manuscript submissions has never been more intense. As research output continues to grow and author attention becomes harder to earn, publishers need marketing strategies that combine precision targeting,...
(Charlottesville, VA) May 29, 2026 — Silverchair announced that it was recognized with three awards at the 2026 Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) EPIC Awards Celebration, held on May 28...
The May Publisher Working Group brought together ScholarOne publishers to dig into one of the most pressing operational challenges in scholarly publishing right now: manuscript screening. What does it mean to screen well?...
Everyone in scholarly publishing has heard the warning: peer review is in crisis. But is it? That question is where the 2026 Future of Peer Review Report begins. Before accepting a crisis narrative...
We're pleased to announce the second 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...
Over six weeks this spring, a group of ScholarOne clients joined us for something a little different: not a demo, not a webinar, but a genuine product collaboration. Our first User Testing Group...
In the latest Publishing Tech Trends Report from Silverchair and Hum, industry leaders offered their insights on how the most interesting tech/AI experiments they've seen in scholarly publishing in the last...
May 15, 2026, London, UK & Charlottesville, VA: Enago and Silverchair announced a new partnership to integrate Enago Reports into the ScholarOne Manuscripts platform as part of the Silverchair Universe program. The integration enables publishers using ScholarOne Manuscripts to seamlessly access advanced manuscript screening...
The final event in our spring 2026 Platform Strategies Webinar Series brought together a publisher, a librarian, and a technologist to work through a question that's moved from speculative to...
The Silverchair team hosted an office hours session on bot traffic and site security. Here's what we covered, and what you asked. The bot-optimized layer Silverchair has built a dedicated infrastructure layer...
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...
There is significant energy in the scholarly publishing industry right now around Model Context Protocol (MCP). Publishers are exploring it, societies are being pitched on it, and a growing number of...
Working Without a Rubric Before I worked in scholarly publishing, I taught high school physics. Imagine you assign an open-ended project with very few instructions. As students start turning in work, you realize they chose...
This year’s Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting will take place in Chula Vista, California, May 27-29, bringing the community together for educational sessions, compelling keynotes, plenty of networking time,...
On April 29, we held the second Fathom office hours, the day before the legacy analytics system retires for Fathom users. In this session, we talked through some guidance for reconciling data,...
A good map doesn't tell you everything at once. It shows you where you're headed, marks the significant landmarks, and lets the journey reveal itself as you go. Silverchair's product vision works the same...
This September, Silverchair is again hosting in-person opportunities for our clients to connect with our team and with one another for a day of learning. Forum Connect: ScholarOne Manuscripts (formerly the ScholarOne Summit) takes place on Thursday, September 24, 2026 at Eaton Workshop...
This September, Silverchair is again hosting in-person opportunities for our clients to connect with our team and with one another for a day of learning. Forum Connect: Silverchair Platform (formerly the Fall Forum) takes...
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 you up-to-date on all...
Our second AI Publisher Working Group of 2026 brought together ScholarOne Manuscripts clients for an open conversation about the Editor AI Console pilot, what editors are experiencing in the field, and where we're taking the product...
The decision to embark on a journey across the Discovery Bridge (our MCP offering for authenticated AI access to your content) is a complex one. There are many questions to consider about your strategy, and how...
Spring conference season has a particular rhythm in scholarly publishing: a stretch of weeks where the industry convenes across multiple cities and continents, and the accumulated intelligence of all those...
(Charlottesville, VA) April 22, 2026 – Silverchair has announced its commitment as a sponsor of SeamlessAccess, the community-led initiative working to streamline federated authentication across the research and education ecosystem. SeamlessAccess enables researchers to access subscribed content through...
Scholarly publishing isn't the first field to discover that its measurement infrastructure was built for a world that no longer exists. Usage data was always measuring access as a proxy for usage. And for...
Renovation is hard to do well. There’s always the temptation to stop at the surface: a new coat of paint, a cleaner homepage, a new font to make a site seem modern. And then there’s the unknown: what’s hiding...
When we released ScholarOne Gateway last year, we knew it was the first step in a long project of bringing ScholarOne into this millennium. Now, with the latest release, we’re...
When we launched the 2026 Platform Strategies Webinar Series, we built it around a question that's been gaining urgency across scholarly publishing: as the definition of "end user" expands to...
Model Context Protocol has quickly become one of the most consequential topics in AI — and it’s landing squarely in the middle of scholarly publishing’s biggest strategic questions. This curated...
Release notes are only useful if you know what to do with them. Starting with the 26.2.1 release, the Silverchair Platform is updating its implementation tags: the labels that tell you...
In the latest Publishing Tech Trends Report from Silverchair and Hum, industry leaders offered their insights on how they think partnerships will shape technology trends in 2026. As AI reshapes the...
(Charlottesville, VA) April 8, 2026 – Silverchair announced a new partnership with Imagetwin to bring image analysis software into ScholarOne Manuscripts. As part of the Silverchair Universe program, the integration allows publishers to detect image duplication, manipulation, plagiarism, and AI-generated figures...
Join us in Vancouver for the World Conference on Research Integrity to discuss the development strategies and innovative practices of open science. If you're in attendance, please email [email protected] to schedule...
Join us in Beijing for the 2026 STM APAC Conference to discuss the development strategies and innovative practices of open science. If you're in attendance, please email [email protected] to schedule a...
If you're a Silverchair Theme Platform publisher, you can now use Fathom, and there's one date worth noting: April 30, 2026. That's when the legacy Silverchair analytics system will no longer be available for clients on Theme. Here's what you need to know: This...
Like so many organizations, Silverchair has embraced AI transformation. We have very deliberately and methodically pushed our people to experiment with AI tools and find ways to use them to automate tedious...
Last month, I had the privilege of leading a Publisher Working Group session with more than 30 attendees across 20+ publishing organizations, all focused on a single question: what does...
Fathom is live, with a new interface, new data model, new possibilities. But any new tool is only as useful as the habits you build around it, so here's how to hit the...
When we launched the 2026 Platform Strategies Webinar Series earlier this year, we framed it around a question that's been reverberating across our industry: what does it really mean to...
The day before the London Book Fair kicked off, Silverchair welcomed clients to central London for Forum Connect, an in-person event that brought together publishers from across both the ScholarOne...
The March Publisher Working Group drew 54 client attendees, a recent record, and it buzzed with enthusiasm. With Fathom launching in less than a week, publishers came with real questions and got real...
May 19, 9am EST Your impact factor is more than a number, it's a signal to researchers about where your journal stands. In this webinar, we'll explore how Web of Science...
The conversation around AI bots and scholarly content has moved quickly from the theoretical to the practical. At our recent Bot Traffic Office Hours, publishers came together to compare notes on what's actually happening with bot traffic, what they're measuring, and what they still can't figure...
If you're reading this post, it means you've already found your way to our new ScholarOne Manuscripts client-only space, The Forum Hub—welcome! This space offers opportunities for us to communicate directly...
Accessibility has always been part of how we think about the Silverchair Platform, but the regulatory and industry landscape of the past few years has accelerated both the urgency and the scope of...
Accessibility has never been a one-time project. Rather, it’s an ever-evolving commitment that has always been part of how we think about the Silverchair Platform. Still, the regulatory and industry landscape of the past few years...
May 12, 11am EST Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen (moderator) Andrew Smeall, VP, Product Innovation, Sage Jane Jiang, Director of Libraries at Union College of Union County Jeremy Little, VP, AI Software...
April 14, 11am EST Emilie Delquié, Chief Product & Customer Success Officer (moderator) Tanya Laplante, Director of Product Platforms, Oxford University Press Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director, COUNTER Cheryl Firestone, Senior Manager,...
March 24, 11am EST Hannah Heckner Swain, VP, Strategic Partnerships, Silverchair (moderator) Lou Peck, CEO, The International Bunch Paul Gee, Vice President, Digital Product Management and Development, The JAMA Network Robb...
In the latest Publishing Tech Trends Report from Silverchair and Hum, industry leaders offered their insights on how they see publishers’ approach to their audience changing in 2026. The perspectives shaping...
Scientific editors are overwhelmed. Manuscript volumes are skyrocketing and overall quality is dropping as AI helps with slop, pseudoscience, and paper mill outputs. Editorial triage has become an exhausting, manual...
What happens when researchers stop visiting your website — and start asking an AI instead? NISO Plus 2026 in Baltimore was one of those conferences where you could feel the industry working through...
As many a Google search will tell you, Silverchair isn't just our company name. It's also a band. And the best bands don't perfect an album in isolation and hope it...
Case Study: How Author Connect Helped CABI Expand Its Impact CABI is a unique, inter-governmental, not-for-profit scientific research and publishing organization providing academic content in agriculture, environmental science, and related disciplines....
(Charlottesville, VA) February 26, 2026 – Silverchair, the leading independent hosting platform for scholarly publishers, announced an expanded partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to host the organization's comprehensive journals portfolio on the Silverchair Platform. Silverchair has served...
A year ago, I started at Silverchair without really understanding what scholarly publishing was. I knew publishers existed, obviously, but I didn't grasp how the industry actually worked or why it mattered beyond...
Over the past several months, we've been on a listening tour. Through 34 in-depth interviews totaling more than 14 hours of conversation, we sat down with editors across 20+ publishers to understand...
How will I get access to Fathom? Mark your calendar for March 23. On launch day you will receive an email with instructions for logging into Fathom for your sites. If you don't see it, check your...
Every client wants zero bugs. Every vendor wishes they could deliver it. And yet, if I offered you completely bug-free software, I can almost guarantee you wouldn't want it; it would be so simple,...
Silverchair's free Spring webinar series returns with a look at changing user behavior and what that means for scholarly publishers. "The New User Experience: Understanding the Full Spectrum of AI &...
Conducting research is hard enough, but the publishing process doesn’t have to be. Each friction point when using a tool like ScholarOne becomes frustrating for all user types. The best way to solve these pain points...
Data migrations are never simple one-to-one transfers. When we move from one analytics system to another, we're not just copying numbers from one place to another; we're fundamentally changing how data is collected, processed,...
(Charlottesville, VA) February 10, 2026 – Silverchair, the leading independent technology partner for scholarly publishers, announced the launch of the Discovery Bridge, leveraging Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect end-users...
In the latest Publishing Tech Trends Report from Silverchair and Hum, industry leaders offered their predictions about what 2026 holds for the scholarly publishing community, and no surprise—it had AI...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – [February 3, 2026] – Silverchair has announced that the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) will adopt Dynamic Discovery, an AI-powered content discovery tool, across its portfolio of scholarly journals. Dynamic Discovery will enhance how clinicians and researchers access the ADA's extensive diabetes...
A researcher asks their AI assistant: "What's the latest evidence on this cancer treatment?" The AI responds confidently, citing three studies. One is peer-reviewed and current. One was retracted two...
Thursday 29 January 2026: Digital Science and Silverchair have partnered to further support research integrity for publishers by integrating the Dimensions Author Check API into ScholarOne Manuscripts as part of...
Publishers on the Silverchair Platform are testing a strategic approach to AI discovery: selectively allowing AI platform bots to access their free content layer. These bot safelist experiments work by permitting specific...
What happens when you allow ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Copilot to access your scholarly content? Two Silverchair Platform publishers tested different approaches to AI traffic—one through targeted unblocking, another through...
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...
Well, it’s 2026, and the platform landscape keeps getting more and more complex. You're fielding questions about whether your content will work with AI assistants, explaining GEO strategies in budget meetings, and troubleshooting why traffic patterns look nothing like...
Conference presentations represent the leading edge of disciplinary knowledge: the experiments that just wrapped, the theories still being refined, the findings too preliminary for publication but too important not to share. The urgency for...
An editor at a society journal opens their dashboard Monday morning to find 47 new submissions. Three are from paper mills with sophisticated AI-generated text. Two promising manuscripts need reviewers, but the...
We're excited to announce that Fathom, Silverchair's analytics platform, will launch on March 23, 2026. This launch represents a fundamental rethinking of how publishers interact with their data, moving from drowning in metrics to...
Your content is being consumed in places you can't see. Your editorial teams are drowning in submissions. Your conference presentations vanish after the event. And through it all, you're being asked to do more with less...
Researchers’ needs are changing and how our publishers are responding to these needs is changing. On the Silverchair end, we've built our product development philosophy around a fundamental belief: the...
2026 marks the fifth Publishing Tech Trends Report published by Hum and Silverchair. In honor of this milestone, we pulled back the curtain to hear from the team behind the...
In 2025, Silverchair experienced strong growth across all product lines, maintaining exceptional uptime of 99.99%+ while expanding content hosting by 24% and launching major innovations including ScholarOne Gateway, Dynamic Discovery,...
The AI search landscape reached a turning point as Google's Gemini 3 began routing complex queries away from traditional search results entirely, while ChatGPT now rivals Google itself as a...
In the fifth annual report on publishing technology trends from Silverchair & Hum, sixteen scholarly publishing leaders weigh in on their predictions for 2026 and beyond. (Revisit previous reports here.)...
Over the past year, the scholarly publishing community has witnessed remarkable progress in how artificial intelligence is being thoughtfully integrated into research workflows and content delivery. At Silverchair, our approach to...
(Charlottesville, VA) December 17, 2025 – Silverchair announced today that Global Campus and Prophy have joined the Silverchair Universe, with both organizations’ functionality now live in ScholarOne Manuscripts. When publishers contract with Global Campus or Prophy, they’ll access powerful...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
(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 home...
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 tell...
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,...
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 scholarly publisher...
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 are...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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 review...
Join us in Indianapolis, IN for the ASAE Annual Meeting to partake in authentic, engaging, thought-provoking, and positive community-building experiences. If you're in attendance, please email [email protected] to schedule a meeting....
We will be in Manchester, UK for the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards. Join us in a friendly forum in which to share information and knowledge, learn about new initiatives,...
Join us in Seattle, WA for the AUP Annual Meeting to share ideas, combine knowledge, and make connections. If you're in attendance, please email [email protected] to schedule a meeting. To learn...
Join us in Washington, DC for the 2025 PubTech Conference to discuss current industry concerns such as publishing and integrity driven by technology, corpus construction, and copyright protection. If you're in...
We will be in Chula Vista, CA for the 48th Annual SSP meeting. Join us at the conference to convene and discuss the latest trends and common challenges our industry...
Join us in Madison, WI for the NASIG Annual Conference to participate in a full day of sessions that includes workshops and keynotes. If you're in attendance, please email [email protected] to...
Join us in Durham for the CSE Annual Meeting to explore environmental sustainability in publishing, marketing or promotions, efforts to address peer review challenges and burnout, and more. If you're in...
We will be in Liverpool, UK for the ALPSP University Press Redux Conference 2026! Join us in Liverpool for the 2-day conference to explore the international view of the many...
We will be in Glasgow, UK for the USKG 49th Annual Conference and Exhibition. Join us for high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks, workshops, posters and breakout sessions If you're in attendance,...
Join us in London for the London Book Fair where the global publishing community unites to develop relationships, gain insights, and define the future of creative content. If you're in attendance,...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
Join us in Baltimore at the NISO Plus conference to share updates and participate in conversations about our shared challenges and opportunities. Silverchair is proud to be sponsoring and presenting...
We will be in attendance for the Researcher to Reader Conference! Join us in London for collaborative gathering which aims to be the premier forum for discussion of the international...
We will be in attendance for ASCE Pathways to Inclusive Publishing: Summit for Publishers! Join us in Reston, VA to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem. If...
Join us in Berlin for Academic Pubishing in Europe to discuss the latest trends and common challenges our industry faces today. If you're in attendance, please email [email protected] to schedule a...
We will be in attendance for STM Innovations Week! Join us in London to explore the breakthroughs that are transforming scholarly communication. If you're in attendance, please email [email protected] to schedule...
We will be in attendance for the Charleston Library Conference! Join us in Charleston, SC for the informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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,...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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 version...
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,...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 in...
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...
(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...
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...
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. In...
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,...
We will be in attendance for SSP 2025 New Directions in Scholarly Publishing! Join us in Washington, DC to convene and discuss the latest trends and common challenges our industry...
(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 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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
(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...
(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...
(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 on...
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 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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): Silverchair's...
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): Silverchair's...
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 trends...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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. AI's most compelling...
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 optimization...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Alchemist...
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. In 2025, the...
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...
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...
(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...
(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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
(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 Signals...
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...
We will be heading to Frankfurt for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025! Find us in Hall 4.0, Booth E85. If you are planning on attending, please email [email protected] to schedule a...
Silverchair is proud to once again be a Silver Sponsor for the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards! Join us in Manchester to learn about new initiatives and engage on open...
Silverchair is a proud sponsor and exhibitor for the International Peer Review Congress. Join us in Chicago where the global scientific community will gather to critically examine and advance the...
Find the Silverchair team at ISMTE, "Editors Without Borders: Breaking Silos in a Technological World." Join us in Montreal to share knowledge, build networks, and shape the future of scholarly...
(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 Publishing...
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...
Data is transforming the publishing landscape. Is your organization ready? As leaders turn their attention toward maintaining, leveraging, and licensing their data, we'll bring together a panel to discuss: Data...
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...
(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...
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. In this blog...
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...
(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...
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 by...
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,...
(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 of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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 partner...
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 the...
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...
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...
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...
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. In this blog...
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 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 &...
(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...
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...
Silverchair is once again sponsoring and exhibiting at the 2025 SSP Annual Meeting. This year's theme is Reimagining the Future of Scholarly Publishing at the Intersection of Value and Values. Find...
The ScholarOne team is heading to Minneapolis, MN for the CSE Annual Meeting. These meetings feature courses and sessions for editors from around the world to discuss everything from submissions...
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...
(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 Australia's...
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 task....
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,...
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,...
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...
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 a...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 our...
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 professional...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 and...
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....
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...
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...
(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),...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 research...
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...
(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 a...
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...
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...
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 changes...
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 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...
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,”...
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 the...
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 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 in...
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.” As...
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...
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...
(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...
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 with...
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...
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 Registration...
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...
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,...
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. In...
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...
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...
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 AI...
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...
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 of...
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...
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. This...
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 Peer...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.) Scholarly...
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...
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 next...
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 you...
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 February...
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...
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...
(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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 AI...
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: Curriculum...
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...
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...
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 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...
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....
(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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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. The...
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,...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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 prototyping...
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) allows publishers...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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, 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'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 Working...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 Griffin...
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 [email protected]....
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Silverchair has prioritized accessibility internally for years, and aims for AA WCAG compliance in all of our online products. Read more about our process....
(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...