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...
Scholarly publishing isn't the first field to discover that its measurement infrastructure was built for a world that no longer exists. Usage data was always measuring access as a proxy for usage. And for...
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...
A year ago, I started at Silverchair without really understanding what scholarly publishing was. I knew publishers existed, obviously, but I didn't grasp how the industry actually worked or why it mattered beyond...
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...
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...
When I joined Silverchair in 2022 as a Customer Success Manager, I was completely new to the scholarly publishing world. I had over 15 years of experience in account management,...
Many of the Silverchair team are making their way to Boston for the Society of Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting. Take a look at what reading material they’ve packed in their...
This year’s Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting will take place in Boston, Massachusetts May 29-31 with the theme, “Inflection Point: Setting the Course for the Future of Scholarly Communication.” As...