REPORT: Analytics Whitepaper
We’re pleased to announce a new whitepaper on publishing analytics: Stop Measuring What’s Easy. This comprehensive guide explores trends in usage and peer review reporting through the lens of the current...
Beyond Search: From Retrieval to Research Sessions
The leading AI systems can now conduct sophisticated investigations of a scholarly corpus — multi-step research that would take a skilled researcher hours or days to compile by hand. To...
Silverchair Advances the Editor Experience Across ScholarOne with Modern Interfaces & AI-Powered Insight Tools
(Charlottesville, VA) July 21, 2026 – Silverchair announced two complementary advancements to the editor experience within ScholarOne Manuscripts: the continued rollout of ScholarOne Gateway with new Editor dashboards and the...
Tech Trends Deep Dive: Tech Experiments
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...
Beyond the Platform: AI Agents, Chat Tools, and the MCP Ecosystem
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...
Ask the Right Questions: A Technologist’s Advice on MCPs
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...
How scholarly publishing is rethinking usage metrics in an AI world
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...
AI as Discovery Layer: On-Platform Tools That Transform How Users Find Content
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...
MCP 101: A Reading List for Publishers
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...
Understanding AI Traffic: Bots, Crawlers, and What They Mean for Your Platform
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...
Silverchair Launches the Discovery Bridge MCP to Connect Scholarly Content with AI-Powered Research Workflows
(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...