11 Aug What I got wrong (about AI) this year
When I was asked to reflect on what I got wrong about AI over my first year at Silverchair, my first instinct was to wonder whether I had enough material....
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14 Jul The Ups and Downs of Bot Traffic: Office Hours Recap
This blog recaps our latest bimonthly office hours on July 10, 2026. We've been running these conversations for about a year, built on a willingness to collaborate and share information across publishers. Their...
08 Jul Signal & Noise: A preview of Platform Strategies 2026
For the Silverchair team, summer not only means vacations and gardening, but also ramping up preparations for Platform Strategies and our Fall client events (Forum Connect). Strategies is back in Washington,...
02 Jul The Crocodile in the Room: Why Direct Author Relationships Matter More than ever
You may be aware of the metaphor doing the rounds in scholarly publishing circles right now: impressions, visibility, AI surfacing of content are represented by the upper jaws of the...
01 Jul American Academy of Pediatrics and Silverchair Launch AI-Powered Research Assistant for Red Book Online
(Charlottesville, VA and Itasca, IL) July 1, 2026 – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Silverchair today announced the launch of “Red Book® AI Assistant”, an AI-powered clinical support...
25 Jun Integra and Silverchair Partner to Bring AI-Powered Manuscript Screening to ScholarOne
Integration of EditorialPilot with ScholarOne enables automated quality and research integrity checks directly within the editorial workflow (Charlottesville, VA) June 25, 2026 - Integra, a global leader in publishing and digital...
03 Jun The Quiet Shift: In-House Counsel as a Strategic Partner in Scholarly Publishing’s AI Era
The questions landing on an in-house counsel's desk in scholarly publishing look nothing like they did five years ago. Today, they're about AI governance, cross-border data flows, and intellectual property...
19 May Editor AI Console
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19 May REPORT: 2026 Future of Peer Review
We're pleased to announce the second 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...
14 May 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...
12 May 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...
11 May 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...
08 May 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 chose...
30 Apr Before You Cross: Questions to Ask Yourself About MCP
The decision to embark on a journey across the Discovery Bridge (our MCP offering for authenticated AI access to your content) is a complex one. There are many questions to consider about your strategy, and how...
28 Apr Out and About: Notes from a Busy Spring Conference Season
Spring conference season has a particular rhythm in scholarly publishing: a stretch of weeks where the industry convenes across multiple cities and continents, and the accumulated intelligence of all those...
16 Apr 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...
14 Apr 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...
02 Apr Managing Simulacra and Preserving Meaning in an AI Native Workplace
Like so many organizations, Silverchair has embraced AI transformation. We have very deliberately and methodically pushed our people to experiment with AI tools and find ways to use them to automate tedious...
31 Mar Fathom: How to Get the Most Out of Our New Analytics Product
Fathom is live, with a new interface, new data model, new possibilities. But any new tool is only as useful as the habits you build around it, so here's how to hit the...
18 Mar What Publishers Are Learning From the Bot Traffic Frontier
The conversation around AI bots and scholarly content has moved quickly from the theoretical to the practical. At our recent Bot Traffic Office Hours, publishers came together to compare notes on what's actually happening with bot traffic, what they're measuring, and what they still can't figure...
09 Mar Silverchair & Hum Expand Universe Partnership, Bringing Full Alchemist Review Intelligence to ScholarOne Manuscripts
Scientific editors are overwhelmed. Manuscript volumes are skyrocketing and overall quality is dropping as AI helps with slop, pseudoscience, and paper mill outputs. Editorial triage has become an exhausting, manual...
05 Mar AI, Bots, and the Future of Scholarly Access: Notes from NISO Plus 2026
What happens when researchers stop visiting your website — and start asking an AI instead? NISO Plus 2026 in Baltimore was one of those conferences where you could feel the industry working through...
17 Feb 2026 Platform Strategies Webinar Series
Silverchair's free Spring webinar series returns with a look at changing user behavior and what that means for scholarly publishers. "The New User Experience: Understanding the Full Spectrum of AI &...
10 Feb 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...
10 Feb Discovery Bridge
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04 Feb Tech Trends Deep Dive: AI’s Transformation of Scholarly Publishing in 2026
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...
03 Feb Silverchair’s AI-Powered Dynamic Discovery to Enhance Subscriber Value Across the American Diabetes Association’s Journals
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – [February 3, 2026] – Silverchair has announced that the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) will adopt Dynamic Discovery, an AI-powered content discovery tool, across its portfolio of scholarly journals. Dynamic Discovery will enhance how clinicians and researchers access the ADA's extensive diabetes...
02 Feb Making trust visible: Building the AI discovery infrastructure publishers need
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...
28 Jan Setting up bot safelist experiments
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...
27 Jan AI Bot Traffic Pilot: Key Findings
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...
21 Jan Fathom is coming: a new analytics platform for data-driven publishing
We're excited to announce that Fathom, Silverchair's analytics platform, will launch on March 23, 2026. This launch represents a fundamental rethinking of how publishers interact with their data, moving from drowning in metrics to...
08 Jan SEO & AI Search Update: January 2026
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...
06 Jan REPORT: 2026 Publishing Tech Trends
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.)...
18 Dec 2025 AI Round-Up: A Year of Innovation and Collaboration
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...
17 Dec Global Campus and Prophy Join Silverchair Universe to Integrate AI-Powered Reviewer Matching Tools in ScholarOne
(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...
15 Dec Teaching AI with AI: How Silverchair Built a Scalable Skills Development Program
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...
11 Dec Demystifying Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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...
20 Nov Navigating AI Bots: Insights from Our November Office Hours
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,...
04 Nov Fall Forum 2025 Recap: Workshop Discussions
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...
04 Nov SEO & AI Search Update: Key Takeaways for Scholarly Publishers
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...
30 Oct PS25 Recap: Breakout Room Discussions
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...
28 Oct PS25 Recap: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
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...
14 Oct From Prototypes to Production: How Silverchair’s AI Lab Became a Client Innovation Engine
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...
08 Oct Four Years of Scholarly Publishing Tech Trends: What We’ve Learned
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...
17 Sep The Future of AI-Enhanced Peer Review
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...
16 Sep Recap: 2025 Peer Review Congress
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...
15 Sep The Coming Inflection Point: AI as Science’s Gatekeeper
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...
03 Sep REPORT: 2025 Future of Peer Review
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...
24 Jun Navigating Reality in the Age of AI: A Scholarly Publishing Perspective
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...
27 May Silverchair Expands AI Playground to ScholarOne Manuscripts
(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...
20 May Cactus Communications and Silverchair collaborate to elevate research integrity and streamline editorial workflows
(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...
06 May Silverchair Launches AI-Powered Dynamic Discovery on the Silverchair Platform
(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...
01 Apr Tech Trends Deep Dive: Compelling Use Cases for AI
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...
25 Mar Silverchair & Hum Announce Alchemist Review & ScholarOne Manuscripts Partnership
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...
17 Mar Silverchair’s AI Lab Delivers Oxford Academic AI Discovery Assistant for Dynamic Research Support
(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...
14 Feb Tech Trends Deep Dive: Digital Content Challenges
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...
21 Jan Tech Trends Deep Dive: Revenue Opportunities
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...
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...
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...