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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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,...
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...
19 May Editor AI Console
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="9246" img_size="medium" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_empty_space][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_empty_space height="64px"][vc_column_text] The ScholarOne Editor AI Console gives editors immediate, contextualized insights into manuscript...
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...
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...
30 Mar 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...
26 Mar From London with Momentum: Forum Connect Recap
The day before the London Book Fair kicked off, Silverchair welcomed clients to central London for Forum Connect, an in-person event that brought together publishers from across both the ScholarOne...
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...
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
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="page-section"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="9249" img_size="large" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text]The Discovery Bridge enables researchers to access scholarly content directly through AI assistants while...
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...
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...
09 Dec Current Experiments
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="page-section"][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_single_image image="7710" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]As an innovative experimentation space, the AI Lab is continuously ideating and prototyping possible solutions with our...
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...
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...
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...
06 Jun Value & Values: Reflections on SSP 2025
Last week, Silverchairians attended the Society for Scholarly Publishing meeting in Baltimore to meet with clients, engage with prospects, and showcase our products. The meeting also marked the formal debut...
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...
15 May Platform Strategies 2025: Join Industry Leaders September 25th
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...
12 May Dynamic Discovery
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="page-section"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="grid" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="1/12"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="9247" img_size="large" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="7/12"][vc_column_text] Find What Matters, Faster Dynamic Discovery transforms how researchers connect with scholarly content...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
19 Jan The AI Lab
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" el_class="page-section"][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="7710" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]The Silverchair AI Lab is an innovative experimentation space where we can bring prototypes to our clients...
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...
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...
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...