08 Jan REPORT: 2025 Publishing Tech Trends
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...
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02 Dec PS 2024: The Trough of AI Disillusionment: What Have We Learned?
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...
08 Nov Agentic Frameworks: Observations from the Silverchair AI Lab
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...
30 Jul The AI Lab: Six Months Later
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...
23 Jul When are AI Products Good Enough to Release?
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...
22 Jul July 2024 AI Reading list
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...
24 Jun Content Marketing in the Age of AI
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...
17 Jun Google AI Overviews: Implications & Options
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...
14 Jun Predicting the Future of Publishing Technology
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...
28 May Emerging Technology Trends in 2024
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...
10 May Ask the Team (part 2): AI in Scholarly Publishing
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...
09 May Ask the Team (part 1): Developing AI Products
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...
30 Apr April 2024 State of Silverchair Recap: AI Lab
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...
22 Apr REPORT: 2024 AI A to Z Primer
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...
11 Apr April 2024 AI Reading Roundup
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...
04 Apr Lightning Strikes Twice: Key Takeaways from Recent Conferences
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...
26 Mar Back to Basics? Content Delivery Shifts in 2024
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...
14 Mar March 2024 AI Reading Roundup
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...
04 Mar Ancient AI: Can the history of artificial intelligence inform our future?
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...
29 Feb New Formats & AI Support: 2024 Content Priority Shifts
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...
23 Feb February 2024 AI Reading Roundup
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...
01 Feb How AI Will Transform Scholarly Publishing
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...
29 Jan Silverchair’s AI Lab Launches Prototypes to Transform Science Communication
(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...
25 Jan Introducing the Silverchair AI Lab
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...
25 Jan AI-Generated Summary FAQs
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...
23 Jan 2023 Publisher Working Groups, + 2024 Preview
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...
22 Jan Chess, Go, and the Tipping Point of AI
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...
16 Jan January 2024 AI Reading Roundup
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...
16 Jan 2024 Tech Trends: Be fast followers & make small bets
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...
09 Jan REPORT: 2024 Publishing Tech Trends
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....
14 Dec Inside the AI Transformation Team
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...
01 Dec November AI Reading Roundup
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...
30 Nov Platform Strategies 2023: Shifts in Scholarly Publishing
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,...
29 Nov State of Silverchair: AI Progress
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...
07 Nov The Crossroads of AI Web Crawling & Academic Publishing
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...
01 Nov Platform Strategies Recap: AI in Scholarly Publishing Panel
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...
26 Oct AI Reading Roundup: October 2023
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...
13 Oct 2023 Fall Conference Season Recaps
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,...
11 Sep White Paper: AI in Scholarly Publishing
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...
24 Aug AI Reading Roundup: August 2023
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...
10 Jan 2023 Publishing Tech Trends
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...
27 Sep How Publishers Can Use AI to Capitalize on Trending News Topics
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...