In the spirit of the Silverchair AI Lab, client collaboration, transparency, and experimentation will drive the growth and expansion of several prototypes. Silverchair is directly partnering with a select group of development partners to explore areas of potential AI support that are most impactful for editors and editorial office staff throughout the publishing process.
The ScholarOne AI Playground will explore solutions that streamline the manuscript review process for editors. The aim is to save editors time, helping to reduce many of the bottlenecks in editorial evaluations. This user-friendly environment allows publishers and editors to discover, stress-test, and hone when and where to leverage AI in their workflows and informs Silverchair’s future product development.
“Like everything we’ve done with the Silverchair AI Lab, our team has built ScholarOne AI Playground as a space to actively and safely collaborate with users in a hands-on environment,” said Stuart Leitch, Silverchair CTO. “It provides a controlled environment where our teams can prove out assumptions and refine prompts with an ethical, iterative, transparent, scientific approach. We’re excited to further develop the tool for release to the wider ScholarOne community.”
ScholarOne AI Playground is the latest output of Silverchair’s AI Lab, which was designed to transparently test and pilot potential AI solutions both with our clients and with industry partners. This investment in learning and collaborating is continuing in 2025 with the delivery of several AI features and products throughout the year, including the previously announced Dynamic Discovery tool and OUP’s Law Pro. The experimentation had already been expanding to include ScholarOne, with the integration of Hum’s Alchemist Review, as well as several research integrity-focused partnerships earlier this year.
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