(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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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...
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 One was retracted two...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We're pleased to announce the first 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...
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...
(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 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...
(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...
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...
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...
(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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 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...
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...