NEWS & EVENTS

Platform Strategies 2026: September 23 in DC

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...

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...
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