20 Dec Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting
We'll be in attendance at the 2025 SSP 47th Annual Meeting. This year's theme is Reimagining the Future of Scholarly Publishing at the Intersection of Value and Values. We're hoping to...
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20 Dec Council of Science Editors
The ScholarOne team is heading to Minneapolis, MN for the CSE Annual Meeting. These meetings feature courses and sessions for editors from around the world to discuss everything from submissions...
20 Dec STM 2-day US Annual Conference
We'll be back in DC for the STM 2-day Annual Conference. STM's Annual US Conference is an inspired convening of individuals and organisations committed to advancing trusted research — academic...
20 Dec UKSG Annual Conference
We're excited to head to The UKSG Annual Conference. The conference covers a wide range of topics and combines high-quality plenary presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions with entertaining social events...
20 Dec London Book Fair
Who is going to the London Book Fair? We look forward to seeing everyone at this essential part of the international book trade calendar. We're hoping to see you there! Please...
20 Dec NISO+
We are headed to Baltimore for the NISO+ Conference (as well as their pre-conference JATSCon!). NISO+ is always a great opportunity to connect about infrastructure, standards, and the technology powering...
20 Dec APE 2025
We're kicking off 2025 with APE! Join us in Berlin for exciting conversations on reframing the dialogue around scholarly communication. If you're in attendance, please email us to schedule a meeting....
19 Dec COUNTER 5.1: FAQs for the New Year
The questions below are a collection of inquiries from publishers, librarians, and Silverchair. The answers have been sourced from COUNTER 5.1 documentation or directly from Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director of...
17 Dec CSIRO Publishing Selects Silverchair
(Charlottesville, VA) December 17, 2024 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with CSIRO Publishing to host their rich repository of over 120,000 articles and extensive book collection. CSIRO Publishing is Australia's...
12 Dec Expanding the impact narrative to include transparent research practices
This blog originally published on STM Publishing News, and is co-authored by Lindsay Morton, Adrian Stanley, and Tim Vines at DataSeer. Defining the true impact of research is an elusive task....
11 Dec Fall Forum Recap: Ways of Working
The team at Silverchair shared significant developments on how we collaborate with publishers, emphasizing transparency, efficiency, and strategic partnership. This session at Fall Forum shared key improvements to project delivery,...
11 Dec Enhancing Accessibility: From ScholarOne to the Next Generation
In recent years, accessibility has become a critical aspect of digital product design and development, becoming a mandate in our industry and beyond. For us at the ScholarOne Product team,...
10 Dec Navigating the Future of Data Management: The Imperative of Data Retention Policies
As we sail through the digital age, the data we generate has become one of the most valuable assets at our disposal. The scholarly publishing community is no exception, with...
09 Dec The “New” Silverchair: Brand Updates & New Logos
Silverchair’s recent acquisition of ScholarOne presented an exciting opportunity for the Silverchair Marketing team to update our branding and introduce new logos to our family of products. ScholarOne was previously a...
09 Dec Fall Forum Recap: Client Innovation Showcase
We always love hearing from publishers in our client community about what they're experimenting with and piloting on the Silverchair Platform. Our clients face industry challenges with ingenuity and adaptability....
05 Dec Integrating for Innovation: Silverchair’s Vision for ScholarOne
At Silverchair, we believe that innovation and technology can help fulfill the greatest promise of scholarship. This is our vision, and everything we do is in service of the scholarly...
03 Dec Fall Forum Recap: Platform Roadmap and Beyond
In this insightful session, Product Manager Emily Hazzard and VP of Product Sven Molter reviewed 2024’s progress and shared a glimpse into the future of the Silverchair Platform, which includes...
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...
26 Nov Fall Forum Recap: Opening Conversation
At our 2024 Fall Forum, Silverchair's exclusive, in-person client event where collaboration, innovation, and forward-thinking discussions are encouraged, Emilie Delquié, Silverchair's Chief Product & Customer Success Officer, and Will Schweitzer,...
21 Nov PS 2024: What’s Your Strategy If There Is No Platform?
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...
20 Nov PS 2024: Who Invests in Innovation?
The question of funding lies at the heart of scholarly publishing. As the industry evolves, critical questions emerge: Who funds open access publishing? Who invests in infrastructure and innovation? And...
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...
06 Nov PS 2024: The Polarity Between Transformative Vision & Practical Traction
In September, Platform Strategies 2024 in Washington, DC opened with a keynote featuring Alix Vance, CEO and President of AIP Publishing, and Sara Rouhi, Director of Open Science and Publishing...
06 Nov Program Increment 24.3 Retrospective
In each Program Increment (PI), Silverchair's teams enhance, improve, and grow the Silverchair Platform. We want to start taking a look back at the breadth of our progress, and keep...
30 Oct Fall Forum Recap: Platform Priority Workshops
At last month's Fall Forum, we ran a series of workshops on some of the top priorities for platform health today: accessibility, SEO & Google, data protection & privacy, and...
28 Oct FAQs regarding Silverchair’s Acquisition of ScholarOne
We are excited to announce that Silverchair has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ScholarOne Manuscripts and ScholarOne Conferences from Clarivate today. With this expansion, Silverchair will continue to serve our...
28 Oct Silverchair to Acquire ScholarOne from Clarivate to Expand Investment & Innovation in Critical Publishing Technology
The Combined Entity Will Offer Unparalleled Services & Independent Partnership to the Publishing Community (Charlottesville, VA) October 28, 2024 – Silverchair, the leading independent hosting platform partner for scholarly and professional...
17 Oct Assessing Real-World ROI: Tracing the True Value of Open Access Publishing
At the 2024 OASPA conference, I moderated a panel session titled “Assessing Real-World ROI: Tracing the True Value of Open Access Publishing,” which brought together a diverse group of industry...
14 Oct Platform Strategies 2024: Attendee Reflections
Last month, Silverchair hosted Platform Strategies 2024 in Washington, DC. As in past years, the event was well received by attendees, who engaged with speakers and fellow attendees on some...
08 Oct Security Considerations for Using URL-Changing Proxies in Academic Institutions
As a technology platform provider, we prioritize ensuring the security and integrity of our services. With our migration to CloudFlare, we’ve improved our overall security posture, however, we’ve also encountered...
08 Oct The Complexity of Multi-Tenant Platforms
As a technology provider, a key element of building strong partnerships is navigating what we call the Zone of Dramatic Complexity. This refers to the polarity we must manage when...
04 Oct Platform Strategies 2024: Silverchairian Reflections
Last week, Silverchair hosted Platform Strategies 2024 in Washington, DC. The event was filled with inspiring conversations, thoughtful presentations, and AI photo booth shenanigans. In the coming weeks, we'll be...
19 Sep The ABCs and Whys of “Containerless” Content
In today’s digital landscape, there are new types of content emerging every day. Publishers need flexibility in their platform to bring together a wide variety of content types in a...
16 Sep A Customer-Centric Culture in Action
Looking back at my first year at Silverchair, I can’t help but be impressed by my colleagues and by the organization’s true culture of dedication to our clients. Silverchair’s commitment...
11 Sep Taxonomy 101: The Hidden Structures Powering Content Discovery
The world of content discovery is rapidly evolving, as LLMs and RAG frameworks change how users find and engage with information. It is easy to overlook the back-end mechanisms that...
10 Sep Cultivating Innovation: The Key to Sustained Growth
With all the changes taking place in scholarly publishing and the world at large, innovation is not just a buzzword—it’s a necessity. Organizations that fail to innovate risk stagnation and...
04 Sep The Silverchair Platform: Flexible & Open
The Open Access movement has transformed publishing over the last 22 years since the 2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative, even more markedly so in the last 6 years since Plan...
28 Aug Preparing for the European Accessibility Act: Recommendations for Publishers
By June 2025, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) will be implemented, impacting member states and companies interacting with EU citizens by mandating adherence to specific accessibility standards. This act is aimed at...
28 Aug Preparing for the European Accessibility Act: Recommendations for Publishers
By June 2025, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) will be implemented, impacting member states and companies interacting with EU citizens by mandating adherence to specific accessibility standards. This act is aimed at...
27 Aug Silverchair Fall Conference Preview
Seemingly out of nowhere the sun is setting sooner, it’s all back-to-school pics on social media, and cinnamon pinecones are popping up at the entrances to our supermarkets. There’s no...
20 Aug The Evolution of AI at Silverchair
Throughout my tenure at Silverchair, I’ve worked on numerous sites, clients, and use cases. While I had prior experience in machine learning before my time at Silverchair, my focus within...
20 Aug Take Full Control of Your Events with Cadmore Media’s Integrated Live Events Platform
The following is a guest blog from Silverchair Universe partner Cadmore Media. As a trusted Silverchair Universe partner, Cadmore Media is proud to be a preferred technology provider for audio and...
02 Aug Forum @ Home: AI Lab 6 Months Later Recap
On July 25, we held a Forum @ Home webinar to walk our client community through how our AI strategy is evolving, and what we're learning from all of you....
02 Aug Program Increment 24.2 Retrospective
In each Program Increment (PI), Silverchair's teams enhance, improve, and grow the Silverchair Platform. We want to start taking a look back at the breadth of our progress, and keep...
01 Aug CrowdStrike: Silverchair’s Incident Response in Action
On July 19th, 2024 at 12:09am EST, security technology provider CrowdStrike released an update that triggered crashes worldwide, causing the “blue screen of death” (BSOD) and disrupting travel, healthcare, and...
01 Aug The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Launches Game-Changing Education Product on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA, and Alexandria, VA) August 1, 2024 – Silverchair and the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) announced the launch of the Otolaryngology Core Curriculum (OCC),...
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...
25 Jul Fall Forum 2024: Agenda
We hope everyone is getting excited to share ideas and ask questions at our Fall Forum on Tuesday, September 24, in Washington DC. Our working agenda is below, and as...
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...
18 Jul REPORT: The Existential Crisis of Research Impact
Today's research impact ecosystem is a balancing act of stakeholder priorities, evolving practices, and measurement challenges. In this report you'll find: Explorations on impact definitions for different stakeholders Connections between research...
27 Jun Sensus Impact: Four-month checkup
It’s been over four months since the launch of our newest product, Sensus Impact. When I think about the effort evolved in conceiving and developing Sensus, and the care and...
24 Jun Silverchair Expands Multimedia Offerings with Cadmore Media, Enhancing User Experience Across Client Sites
(Charlottesville, VA and Bethesda, MD) June 25, 2024 – Silverchair, the leading independent platform provider for professional and scholarly publishers, has made Cadmore Media their preferred video provider. Cadmore is a...
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...
10 Jun SSP 2024 Retrospective: From Inflection Points to GOATs
This year’s Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts had the theme, “Inflection Point: Setting the Course for the Future of Scholarly Communication,” and it certainly felt like...
10 Jun Silverchair Achieves ISO Certification
Silverchair is pleased to announce that the Silverchair Platform has achieved ISO 27001 certification, an important milestone in our commitment to information security. This certification is an internationally recognized standard...
28 May The Other AI: A Reading List on Human Intelligence
At the 2024 Society for Scholarly Publishing annual meeting in Boston, I moderated a session titled, “The Other AI: The Role of Actual Intelligence In the Future of Scholarly Publishing,”...
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...
21 May SSP Plane, Train, and Automobile Reads
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...
14 May Platform Strategies 2024: Join Industry Leaders September 25th
PLATFORM STRATEGIES delivers opportunities for scholarly and professional publishing leaders to learn, network, and share their thoughts on the technology and strategy trends shaping the industry. Bringing together case studies, innovators in...
13 May SSP 2024: Mapping the Future Together
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...
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...
07 May Silverchair Releases New AI Playground for Safe & Transparent Experimentation
(Charlottesville, VA) May 7, 2024 - Silverchair announced the release of a new AI Playground, the latest from the Silverchair AI Lab, which launched earlier this year with three active...
07 May Introducing the AI Playground
As previewed in last month's State of Silverchair presentation, we are delighted to open the AI Playground to clients. The AI Lab was designed as a space to transparently experiment with...
03 May Program Increment 24.1 Retrospective
In each Program Increment (PI), Silverchair's teams enhance, improve, and grow the Silverchair Platform. We want to start taking a look back at the breadth of our progress, and keep...
03 May Fall Forum Registration is Now Open!
Silverchair's Fall Forum is back in person this year. It will take place on September 24 (the day before Platform Strategies) in Washington, DC. We have officially opened up Client Registration...
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...
24 Apr MEET OUR LEADERS: Sven Molter
Sven Molter joined Silverchair earlier this month, working closely with clients and internal teams to craft the vision for Silverchair’s products. Below, we asked about his path to Silverchair, AI,...
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...
18 Apr IPv6: What it is and why it matters
In order to ensure a better experience and seamless access to our platforms, we are excited to announce that Silverchair now supports IPv6 - the latest version of the Internet...
17 Apr Purpose & Adaptability in Work & Life
As we shared earlier this year, Silverchair recently added a fifth core value: “Innovate with Purpose and Adaptability.” This value recognizes the accelerated pace of change that our industry and...
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...
02 Apr Silverchair Expands Product & Strategic Partnerships
Sven Molter Joins Silverchair as VP of Product (Charlottesville, VA) April 2, 2024 – Silverchair announced the expansion of its Product team with the addition of Sven Molter as VP of...
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...
21 Mar Announcing the 2024 AI Lab Reports Series
Silverchair's free spring webinar series has grown over the last four years to reach hundreds of attendees interested in exploring the technologies and strategies that support professional and scholarly knowledge. This...
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...
07 Mar Sensus Impact 101: Everything you need to know
Sensus Impact launched on Wednesday, February 14 (a little Valentine’s treat for the scholarly publishing community). This launch was exciting not only because of the clear need it filled in...
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...
27 Feb Cloudflare: Ensuring Superior Protection with Silverchair
At Silverchair, we're proud of our status as the leading independent platform partner serving the needs of scholarly and professional publishers. We've built our reputation on providing flexible technology solutions...
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...
21 Feb Remember the Agile Manifesto? Creating Space for Individuals & Interactions
It's been a while since the Agile Manifesto has been at the forefront of our industry's collective mind. For those unfamiliar, the Agile Manifesto prioritizes individuals, collaboration, and flexibility in...
16 Feb Universe Spotlight: Smart Citations: The Next Generation of Citations
The following is a guest blog post from scite, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. At scite we have been working for over five years to bring forward the next...
15 Feb Silverchair Analytics Rebuild Update
In recent weeks, our Customer Success team has been in touch with clients with an update about our Analytics Rebuild project. Below, we share a recap of that update. As you...
14 Feb Sensus Impact: a new industry initiative to revolutionize research reporting
In an industry-first, funders, publishers and authors will have unrivaled access to funded research impact data as a result of community-led initiative, Sensus Impact. (Oxford, England & Charlottesville, Virginia – 14 February...
05 Feb Building Back Stronger: Organizational and Career Resilience Demystified
In December, I had the honor of presenting to the SSP Journals Academy on the subject of organizational and career resilience. In the face of economic uncertainty and disruptive forces...
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...
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...
18 Jan 2023 Client Project Spotlight
In addition to the features and functionality rolled out by our Platform & Product teams, our development teams also delivered many mission-critical customizations for publishers. Below are some highlights. AAOS: Curriculum...
18 Jan Silverchair Product: 2023 Retro & 2024 Preview
Silverchair releases new features and functionality to the platform every three weeks, meaning a constant cycle of improvements. Since the start of a new year offers a great opportunity to...
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...
11 Jan 2023 Silverchair Retrospective
2023 was the year of AI everything. But as we experimented, learned, and debated as a company and an industry, Silverchair was also hard at work maintaining the high levels...
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....
08 Jan The Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) Partners with Silverchair for Unified Digital Library
(Charlottesville, VA) January 8, 2024 – Silverchair announced today a new partnership with The Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP), the world's leading organization dedicated to the protection of...
03 Jan Innovate with Purpose & Adaptability: Silverchair’s New Core Value
2023 was a watershed year in many ways. Over the course of that year, AI has begun to transform every area of our lives, and the change doesn’t seem to...
18 Dec December 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...
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...
05 Dec Platform Strategies 2023 Recap: Breakout Sessions
Platform Strategies offered attendees a variety of formats in which to engage with content and with each other: keynote talks, panel discussions, in-app polls, Q&A, networking breaks, and topical breakout...
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 State of Silverchair: Product & Platform
In Silverchair's 2023 Forum at Home Series Finale, the State of Silverchair, we shared updates from our Product and Platform teams, as well an insights on security and client services. The...
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...
28 Nov State of Silverchair: Commitment to 2023 Community Feedback
In Silverchair's 2023 Forum at Home Series Finale, the State of Silverchair, our Customer Success (CSX) team shared the results of the 2023 Client Satisfaction Survey, noting trends and areas...
28 Nov The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Selects Silverchair to Host Game-Changing Education Product
(Charlottesville, VA, and Alexandria, VA) November 28, 2023 – Silverchair and the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) announced a new partnership to develop a medical education...
21 Nov Zipline Catalog Page User Filter: A Eulogy
As part of our commitment to continually enhance your experience, we're always looking for ways to make strategic adjustments to the platform that align with our vision for a more...
20 Nov Platform Strategies Recap: Stable but Unsustainable
What are the primary challenges and concerns of leaders for a scholarly publishing organization in the current era? This roundtable discussion gathers some of our industry’s leaders to discuss how...
16 Nov Meet our Leaders: Emilie Delquié
Emilie Delquié joined Silverchair full time in September, working closely with clients through a variety of events and other engagements. Below we asked about what themes she has seen in...
14 Nov The American Medical Association Partners with Silverchair for More Services & Support
(Charlottesville, VA and Chicago, IL) November 14, 2023 – Silverchair and the American Medical Association (AMA) announced today that they have further expanded their partnership on the JAMA Network. The expanded...
14 Nov Upskilling for an AI-Integrated Workforce
Like organizations everywhere, Silverchair is feverishly processing the changes the advent of generative AI technology has brought. In recent months, we’ve created a dedicated AI development team that is rapid prototyping...
10 Nov Introducing Standalone Multimedia
As the publishing ecosystem changes, what we consider a first-class publication object is no longer limited to journal articles, issues, proceedings, books, and chapters. About Standalone Multimedia Standalone Multimedia (SAMM) allows publishers...
10 Nov Silverchair Appoints Jon Meadows SVP of Technology
(Charlottesville, VA) November 10, 2023 – Silverchair has announced the promotion of Jon Meadows to the position of Senior Vice President, Technology. In his new role, Meadows will also join...
10 Nov Platform Strategies Recap: Coopetition
This panel discussion showcased both established and emerging collaboratives and engages in a conversation about the challenges faced by independents, the consequences to the scholarly ecosystem if these audiences are...
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...
07 Nov Researcher 2 Reader
We're heading to London for Researcher to Reader. This collaborative gathering which aims to be the premier forum for discussion of the international scholarly communications ecosystem – bringing knowledge from...
07 Nov Meet Our Leaders: Betsy Donohue
As I sit and write this, it’s been 152 days since I joined Silverchair. In that time, I have attended five lively industry meetings, held team strategy sessions at the...
06 Nov Platform Strategies Recap: Digital to Data
Open access policies, industry mergers, and data privacy policies have drastically changed the landscape for marketers in publishing and beyond. Today's marketers have had to nimbly pivot from B2B to...
01 Nov Platform Development Request: Year in Review
The Platform Development Request (PDR) process has been a significant addition to our software platform since its introduction last October. The PDR process aims to directly involve you, our clients,...
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...
27 Oct UX Design & Principles in Action
In the early days of Silverchair, the user experience (UX) team worked very much in the design firm model, where a designer would collaborate with a client on their build or redesign....
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...
18 Oct Silverchair & Google Scholar: Takeaways from our Partnership Roundtable
Silverchair's partnership with Google Scholar is centered around empowering publishers to enhance the discoverability of their content and improve the overall experience for authors and researchers. The Search + Discoverability Working...
18 Oct Platform Strategies: Attendees Share Their Takeaways
Platform Strategies attracts over 150 thought leaders and decision-makers from across our industry for a day of engaging, inspiring discussions, with ample networking built in to the day. A third...
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,...
10 Oct Behind the Scenes: Security
As the Director of Technical & Security Operations, Robb Burgess and his teams ensure that our publisher sites are secure, available, and stable. Robb recently received his CISSP (Certified Information Systems...
10 Oct Behind the Scenes: Performance
In this series of Behind the Scenes blog posts, we'll be sharing excerpts from our June 2023 Forum @Home event, "Unsexy & Unseen: The Hidden Benefits of Being on a...
06 Oct Not Your Mother’s Migration: Complexities and Opportunities
In our June Strategies Spotlight, panelists from AIP Publishing, DCL, and Silverchair shared their perspectives on AIPP's recent migration and what other publishers can learn from the experience. View the...
05 Oct Platform Strategies: Silverchairians Share Their Takeaways
Recordings from the 2023 Platform Strategies event are now available in the archive. Here are the takeaways from Silverchair attendees. You may also view photos from the event here. Craig Griffin...
05 Oct Analytics Tips: Deposits Power BI Failure Alerts
In this new blog series, we’ll offer tips, tricks, and instructions to help clients make the most of Silverchair’s analytics offering. Have an idea for a future blog? Email forum@silverchair.com....
22 Sep Silverchair Appoints Will Schweitzer as CEO
(Charlottesville, VA) September 22, 2023 – Silverchair, the leading independent content management, product enablement, and digital transformation platform for publishers, today announced that Will Schweitzer has been appointed to serve...
21 Sep AI READING ROUNDUP: September 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...
20 Sep Behind the Scenes: Agility in the Cloud
In this series of Behind the Scenes blog posts, we'll be sharing excerpts from our June 2023 Forum @Home event, "Unsexy & Unseen: The Hidden Benefits of Being on a...
15 Sep Introducing Sensus Impact’s Community of Practice
This summer, Silverchair convened the first meeting of the Sensus Impact Community of Practice. In the lead-up to this meeting, individuals from over 30 organizations in the scholarly publishing industry...
15 Sep Behind the Scenes: Availability
In this series of Behind the Scenes blog posts, we'll be sharing excerpts from our June 2023 Forum @Home event, "Unsexy & Unseen: The Hidden Benefits of Being on a...
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...
07 Sep Behind the Scenes: Technology People Infrastructure
In this series of Behind the Scenes blog posts, we'll be sharing excerpts from our June 2023 Forum @Home event, "Unsexy & Unseen: The Hidden Benefits of Being on a...
05 Sep Sustainable Strategies: Globally Responsible Event Planning
Later this month, Silverchair will host the in-person return of our popular industry event, Platform Strategies, in Washington, DC. Though we welcome the increased frequency and reach that virtual events...
31 Aug Accessibility as User Experience
In a recent Forum event, User Experience: Designing sUXessful Interfaces, Brandon Grimes, Senior Business Analyst, discussed the strides that Silverchair has made regarding accessibility. Silverchair believes that it is imperative to...
25 Aug Enhancing Publisher Content Through Semantic Enrichment
Semantic enrichment at Silverchair is led by Taxonomy Manager, Morgan James Eaton, whose library science background is complemented by his expertise in pharmaceutical market research, metadata management, and client services. Always...
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...
18 Aug Silverchair: A Company History
It's been more than 30 years since Silverchair was founded. Over that time, we've gone from indexing to CD-ROMs to being the leading independent platform provider for scholarly and professional...
17 Aug Agile Work Environments: Prioritizing People in the Best and Worst of Times
Fostering a people-centered agile work environment in the best of times requires patience and intentionality. In the face of intense change and crisis, organizations can be tempted to make short-term trade-offs with...
16 Aug A History of UX at Silverchair
I started at Silverchair in 2015. At the time, the UX team worked very much in the design firm model where a designer would collaborate with a client on their build or redesign. When...
10 Aug The Impacts of a Personalized Learning Curriculum
In our previous feature from the May Strategies Spotlight, we showcased viewpoints on the pace of change in education and the impact of technology in panelists' own experiences. Now, we...
10 Aug What’s in a Price? Part 2: The process in action
In Part 1, we reviewed the basic phases of the project estimate process, from request to delivery, as well as tips on making sure that process goes as smoothly and...
08 Aug Platform Strategies 2023: Session Details
Next month, Silverchair's Platform Strategies meeting returns to Washington, DC. The agenda shines a spotlight on the Fall's biggest trends in scholarly publishing: AI, partnership models, the acceleration of data...
03 Aug Career Development and Networking for Introverted Leaders
The 2023 Society for Scholarly Publishing meeting hosted a popular panel discussion with self-identified introverted leaders for a conversation about the specific challenges and benefits of being an introvert when...
01 Aug What’s In a Price? Part 1: The estimate process
When dealing with SWAGs and estimates, there are many layers of complexity that can make it hard to know where the numbers come from. Below, we aim to unravel and...
01 Aug How Has Technology Changed Education?
In our May Strategies Spotlight, panelists shared their perspectives on the pace of change in education and the use of technology in their learning and teaching experiences. The group reflected on...
21 Jul Mobile End-User Considerations & Research Guidance
Recently, we shared an excerpt from our Strategies Spotlight: Appetizing Your Content that shared the team's strategies for fostering a collaborative project between multiple stakeholders. Below, the team shares insights...
20 Jul Silverchair Announces Partnership Renewal with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
(Charlottesville, VA and Denver, CO) July 20, 2023 – Silverchair and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) announced the renewal of their partnership to host AORN’s acclaimed perioperative nursing...
18 Jul Fostering Cohesion & Collaboration: Insights from Long-Term Partnership
Over the last year, McGraw Hill has collaborated with Silverchair and app developer WillowTree to create an app that delivers a variety of content types in a way that is...
13 Jul AAP Launches New Offerings Leveraging Silverchair Composer
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced the launch of two new digital products on the Silverchair Platform: First 1,000 Days Knowledge Center and NeoKit: Tools for Assessment and Care of the Newborn. These...
29 Jun Silverchair Affirms Commitment to Customer Success & Community-Led Innovation with Two New Leadership Hires
(Charlottesville, VA) June 29, 2023 – Silverchair announced today the expansion of their Customer Success team with the addition of Emilie Delquié as SVP of Product and Customer Success and...
25 Jun Sensus Impact: Visualizing Your Value
At the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) meeting in May, Silverchair and OUP announced Sensus Impact, a new community initiative to demonstrate the value of funded research. Below, learn more...
25 Jun Case study: JAMA Network Reveals the value of their data with PSI Metrics
PSI, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program, recently partnered with the JAMA Network to leverage PSI Metrics in identifying OA usage of their esteemed content. PSI Metrics uses the highly...
23 May Ask the community: Modern approaches to consortia
Consortia offer a great way for smaller institutions to access materials they might not otherwise be able to afford and for publishers to develop close partnerships with member institutions. However,...
23 May Silverchair Clients: Get 50% off Platform Strategies registration
Platform Strategies returns to Washington, DC on September 27th with renewed energy and excitement to tackle the technology challenges facing the scholarly publishing industry. View the preliminary agenda below, hear...
22 May SSP 2023: Transforming our Communities
Our flights are booked, our swag is ordered, our dinners are scheduled—it must be SSP season! This year’s Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting will take place in Portland, Oregon May...
18 May Betsy Donohue Joins Silverchair to Scale Community Growth
(Charlottesville, VA) May 18, 2023 – Silverchair announced today that Betsy Donohue will join the company as Senior Vice President for Business Development. Betsy joins Silverchair as a strategic business development leader with...
16 May Join Publishing Leaders at Platform Strategies in Washington, DC
Platform Strategies explores the technologies and strategies that support professional and scholarly knowledge. After a three-year hiatus, the popular in-person event returns to Washington, DC with renewed energy and excitement...
08 May Community-Led Growth – a Major Strategy for 2023
This guest blog is written by Charles Thiede, CEO & Co-Founder of Zapnito, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Communities are in the spotlight at many organizations thanks to the growing...
02 May Unlock the potential of your platform with zero- & first-party affinities
As publishers strive to compete for users with the ever-growing torrent of content available online, it has become increasingly important to know your users and to personalize their experiences. Recently,...
02 May Unlock the potential of your platform with Zero- and First-Party Affinities
As a leading provider of scholarly and professional publishing platforms, Silverchair is constantly innovating and evolving our product to help you meet your users' needs and amplify your content's impact....
24 Apr AIP Publishing Launches on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Melville, NY) April 24, 2023 – AIP Publishing (AIPP) and Silverchair announced today the launch of AIPP’s new digital publication platform, home to the most influential research,...
14 Apr The State of Silverchair | Analytics Spotlight
As the world's leading independent platform for scholarly and professional publishers, Silverchair is committed to continuous improvement and innovation. In our new biannual State of Silverchair event, we share updates...
04 Apr User Journeys, Security, Innovation, & Other 2023 Trends
In our second annual Publishing Technology Trends report (created in collaboration with our friends at Hum), Silverchair's President, Will Schweitzer, offered some of his predictions for what 2023 holds for...
22 Mar Ask the Community: Publisher Pro Tips
One of the goals of the Forum Hub is to facilitate information sharing both from Silverchair to clients as well as between publishers. Following a suggestion at a recent Publisher Working...
21 Mar Announcing Platform Strategies 2023
Platform Strategies is an industrywide event that gathers publishers, technologists, and leaders from scholarly publishing and beyond to discuss the tools and strategies shaping our future. Over the last three years,...
16 Mar 2023 Silverchair Forum Events
Registration is now open for the 2023 Silverchair Forum @Home events! One of Silverchair’s primary values centers on actively cultivating our client and industry communities, which is why Silverchair’s client events...
16 Mar Demystifying Migrations, Part 2: Insights Into the Platform Migration Process
As covered in Part 1 of this series on the modern platform migration process, changing platforms is no longer the headache it once was. After years of experience, industry-wide collaborations,...
03 Mar 2023 Publisher Working Groups
To best serve our clients, their needs must significantly influence our platform development plan. Publisher feedback is essential to our development plan, alongside market trends, emerging research needs, competitor activity,...
02 Mar 2023 Client Working Groups
To best serve you, our clients, their needs must significantly influence our platform development plan. Publisher feedback is essential to our development plan, alongside market trends, emerging research needs, competitor...
21 Feb Demystifying Migrations, Part 1: What to Expect When Expecting a Migration
Mention a platform migration in a room full of publishers, and you’re likely to notice a ripple of shivers through the crowd – PTSD from previous experiences and colleague horror...
26 Jan 2022 Product Innovation at Silverchair
Silverchair releases new content to the platform every three weeks, meaning a constant cycle of improvements and new functionality. Since the start of a new year offers a great opportunity...
25 Jan The Royal Society of Chemistry Launches Innovative Books Offering on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) January 25, 2023 – Silverchair and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) announce the launch of RSC’s extensive book program on the Silverchair Platform. The...
18 Jan 2022 Silverchair Retrospective
2022 was a year of growth & gatherings for Silverchair. In addition to our new capital investment, new publisher partnerships, and new product announcements, we gathered in person again for...
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...
13 Dec American Accounting Association Journals Launch on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Lakewood Ranch, FL) December 13, 2022 – Today, Silverchair and the American Accounting Association (AAA) announced the launch of AAA’s premier collection of academic journals on the...
01 Dec User Privacy Rights: what publishers need to know
Only 21% of global consumers report increased trust in companies’ use of their data, and 85% wish they could trust more companies with their data. That’s why data privacy compliance...
21 Nov The American Association of Immunologists Journals Launch on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Rockville, MD) November 21, 2022 – Silverchair and The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) announced the launch of AAI Journals on the Silverchair Platform. In conjunction with...
18 Nov For Silverchair Clients: Full Data Privacy White Paper
Yesterday, Silverchair released a new white paper, "Data Privacy for Publishers: Getting ahead of the evolving global landscape," designed to be a simple, accessible guide to help scholarly publishers prepare...
17 Nov Data Privacy for Publishers: Getting ahead of the evolving global landscape
As the demand for digital products and services continues to drive the transformation of the scholarly publishing industry, so has the need for data privacy compliance become increasingly necessary. In this...
14 Nov Migrating from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
On July 1, 2023, Google Universal Analytics (UA) will stop processing new hits. Google has replaced Universal Analytics with a new product called Google Analytics 4, or GA4 for short....
04 Nov Reflections from the 2022 Silverchair Summit
Last month, Silverchair convened not one but TWO major community events (oh, and sponsored / co-organized a Charlottesville community event as well!). One of those was the Inaugural Silverchair Summit,...
03 Nov Introducing the new Platform Development Request process
Those who attended Forum last week got a sneak peek of the new Platform Development Request process, or "PDR" for short. As of today, this functionality has been rolled out...
03 Nov Reflections on the 2022 Silverchair Fall Forum
After three years of virtual events, last week we convened our client community in our hometown for two days of education, collaboration, and relationship-building. And it was amazing. But don’t take...
18 Oct Sustaining Community: Environmental Practices at the 2022 Fall Forum
Next week, Silverchair will welcome members of our client community to our headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia for a day of informative presentations and working groups, a chance to meet with...
10 Oct Professional Development at Silverchair
The question candidates for any position at Silverchair most commonly ask me is what professional growth opportunities we offer. That is not at all surprising given that lack of opportunities for...
28 Sep The American Accounting Association Partners with Silverchair
(Charlottesville, VA and Lakewood Ranch, FL) September 28, 2022 – Silverchair announced today a new partnership with the American Accounting Association (AAA). For over 100 years, AAA has been a thought...
06 Sep Continuous & Content-Rich: A Review of Medical Education Technology Needs & Opportunities
Among Silverchair's clients is a prestigious group of medical education providers who deliver many high-profile products on the Silverchair Platform. In recent years, our teams have identified unique challenges and opportunities...
01 Sep Selling Without Selling Out: Selecting an Investor With Intelligence and Integrity
As you know by now, Silverchair recently selected Thompson Street Capital Partners to help accelerate our company's plans for greater growth and impact in the world. What has so far...
23 Aug An Interview with Will Schweitzer
Silverchair recently announced a new capital partnership as well as the appointment of Will Schweitzer (previously Chief Product & Customer Success Officer) as President. Learn more about these developments in...
16 Aug PI21 Zipline Enhancements
In PI21, Silverchair made changes to Zipline to improve performance, specifically: Archiving packages older than one year Reasoning: Archiving package metadata older than one year greatly reduces the amount of...
11 Aug Silverchair + TSCP
Thanks to you and your fellow publishers, Silverchair’s success has accelerated in recent years. We have grown by nearly 40% since 2019, as our community has expanded to include more...
11 Aug Silverchair Accelerates Product Development & Expansion through New Capital Partnership
Silverchair selects Thompson Street Capital Partners for major growth investment (Charlottesville, VA and St. Louis, MO) August 11, 2022 – Silverchair, the leading independent content management, product enablement, and digital transformation...
02 Aug Silverchair Appoints Hannah Heckner Vice President, Product
(Charlottesville, VA) August 2, 2022 - Silverchair is pleased to announce the promotion of Hannah Heckner to Vice President, Product, as it continues to invest in its Product function. As Vice...
01 Aug The American Registry of Pathology Digital Library Launches
(Charlottesville, VA and Arlington, VA) August 1, 2022 – Silverchair and the American Registry of Pathology Press (ARP Press) announced today the launch of the American Registry of Pathology’s digital...
17 Jun GDPR & User Privacy Resources for Publishers
In June, Silverchair hosted Emilie David (Director, Copyright, Licensing & Special Projects at Science/AAAS) for a discussion on how publishers are taking on GDPR and user privacy policy compliance (watch...
09 Jun SSP 2022 Reflections: Building a More Connected Scholarly Community
Last week, members of the Silverchair and Hum teams travelled to Chicago for the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) meeting, the first in-person conference for most attendees since early 2020....
07 Jun Composer Snapshots: Silverchair & Client Perspectives
You know about Composer, the Silverchair authoring tool that gives first-class treatment to semi-structured content like blogs, news, and beyond. As more clients have begun using the tool, Silverchair's own...
07 Jun Dear Composer: A Love Letter from a Silverchair BA
You know about Composer, the Silverchair authoring tool that gives first-class treatment to semi-structured content like blogs, news, and beyond. As more clients have begun using the tool, our teams...
24 May AIP Publishing Accelerates Scitation’s Innovation and Growth with New Partnership
Silverchair selected as digital transformation and product enablement platform (Charlottesville, VA and Melville, NY) May 24, 2022 – AIP Publishing (AIPP) and Silverchair announced today a new partnership to host AIPP’s...
13 May SSP 2022: Reconnecting IRL with our Community
Over the last 2+ years, we’ve been privileged to learn just how resilient Silverchair’s communities are. Our team members, clients, and industry colleagues stayed connected through video calls, fun virtual...
12 May New resource & upcoming enhancements: Accessibility at Silverchair
Silverchair has prioritized accessibility for years, having designed, developed, and hosted federal government sites that legally required 508 Compliance, such as Patient Safety Network and National Guideline Clearinghouse. Today, AA...
11 May Industry Security PSA: New unauthorized content access broker identified
The most effective method for combatting malicious content theft is to encourage discussion and raise awareness within the academic and publishing communities, which is why we share this information here....
06 May Spotlight: The Silverchair Women & Allies Network
Several years ago, after-work gatherings of several Silverchair women started to morph into standing get-togethers prompting insightful discussions, shared laughs, and a platform for stronger working relationships. That group has...
28 Apr The American Diabetes Association Launches on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Arlington, VA) April 28, 2022 – Silverchair and the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) announced the launch of ADA’s Professional Publications site on the Silverchair Platform, opening up...
15 Apr Wellness at Silverchair
Silverchair is committed to supporting our team members not just as employees through professional development and role support, but as whole people. This mindset is built into everything our company...
07 Apr Announcing Platform Strategies 2022
Silverchair is delighted to announce the launch of the 2022 Platform Strategies Webinar Series. Platform Strategies explores the technologies and strategies that support professional and scholarly knowledge. Since the inception of...
05 Apr Silverchair Supports AAOS in Launching the Resident Orthopaedic Core Knowledge Program
First-of-its kind technology platform enables dynamic and engaging curriculum to standardize the baseline knowledge for orthopaedic resident training (Charlottesville, VA) April 5, 2022 – Silverchair, the leading technology partner to...
23 Mar PI 20 Preview
Spring has sprung in Charlottesville and we’re nearly one full sprint into PI 20. While some roadmap projects were sidelined in the first two months of the year, we’re charging...
17 Mar The American Association of Immunologists and Silverchair Advance Immunology Research
(Charlottesville, VA and Rockville, MD) March 17, 2022 – Silverchair and The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) announced an agreement to migrate AAI publications to the Silverchair Platform. Founded in 1913,...
16 Mar Announcing the 2022 Silverchair Forum Events!
As you know, one of Silverchair's primary values centers on actively cultivating our client and industry communities, which is why we are so delighted to announce the 2022 lineup of...
15 Mar Spotlight: DevOps at Silverchair
DevOps (short for “Developer Operations”) is at its essence about empowering developers and development teams. At Silverchair, we feel that everyone should see “DevOps” less as a team, and more...
02 Mar Silverchair’s Hybrid Work Environment
Since the pandemic, Silverchair has implemented a fully hybrid working model. This allows Silverchairians to come into the office or work from home, depending on their own need and preferences....
16 Feb AACR Launches New Publications Portal for Cancer Research
(Charlottesville, VA and Philadelphia, PA) February 16, 2022 – Silverchair and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) announced the launch of AACR’s publications on the Silverchair Platform. The AACR publishes...
15 Feb Leveraging Content in 2022
Publishers sit on a treasure trove of content and data, which means no shortage of product and audience opportunities, but also means no shortage of complexity. As organizations adjust to...
15 Feb The Future of Publishing Technology
In a new report, Silverchair’s Chief Product & Customer Success Officer Will Schweitzer examines six broad trends in publishing technology. Then, a panel of 14 publishing executives and consultants weigh...
11 Feb Silverchair Spotlight: Walker Swain, Business Development Manager
Silverchair has recently expanded its Sales team with the addition of Walker Swain, Business Development Manager. Walker is excited to get to know the industry and members of our community,...
25 Jan Silverchair’s Office: Our (Physical) Workplace of the Future
Silverchair is proud to offer absolute flexibility to our people - fully embracing remote work while also offering a comfortable and beautiful coworking space in historic downtown Charlottesville. (Read more...
24 Jan Silverchair & The American Medical Association: A Case Study on the Retained Development Team Model
Silverchair serves a range of scholarly and professional publishers, from independent association publishers with a single journal, to aggregators who in turn serve hundreds of societies. For this reason, Silverchair...
24 Jan Takeaways: Silverchair 2021 Client Surveys
In 2021, Silverchair conducted two different client surveys. In August, we hired DeltaThink to interview individuals at a representative subset of clients for in-depth discussions to deepen our understanding of...
11 Jan 2021 Silverchair Retrospective
If the theme of 2020 was pivoting and planning, 2021 moved beyond adapting to the changes brought on by the pandemic and other factors and on to growing and thriving...
10 Jan All Your Content in One Place (But Not All at Once)
It used to be that when approaching any significant change regarding a publisher’s content—whether it be metadata clean-up, format conversion to a newer standard, or migrating to a new platform—the...
10 Jan Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Silverchair
Silverchair’s mission is to change the world for the better by empowering creators and users of scholarly and professional knowledge to maximize their positive impact on humanity. As a company that aims to innovate...
06 Jan PI 18 Recap
In Program Increment 18, which ran from late September through mid-December, the Silverchair team closed out the year by delivering several valuable platform enhancements, including: Adding new configurations and features...
06 Jan PI 19 preview
2022 is already off to a roaring start here at Silverchair. The first quarter of this year will be dedicated to some projects to enable exciting new builds, as well...
24 Nov 2021 Publisher Working Group Updates
It’s already November, and our latest cohort of Publisher Working Groups have been engaging in insightful and productive discussions in the latter half of the year. Below is a recap...
22 Nov Remote & Hybrid Work Reading List
Since the start of the pandemic, when our office-centered workforce went fully remote overnight, Silverchair has been continuously engaged in learning, listening, and actively evolving our remote and hybrid work...
15 Nov Promoting Organizational Health through Explicit Hybrid Work Norms
Earlier this year we published our best thinking on “How to make video meetings less terrible.” Since then, we have deepened our understanding of the work norms our people need...
11 Nov The American Academy of Pediatrics Launches Unified Publications Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Itasca, IL) November 11, 2021 – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Silverchair announced today the launch of AAP’s new unified publications site on the Silverchair...
02 Nov Staff Spotlight: Matt Abraham
Each sprint we feature a spotlight on a Silverchairian to help clients get to know more about the people you work with on a day-to-day basis. Matt Abraham Job Title: Business...
02 Nov Working at Silverchair: Corporate Perks
When we talk about the "perks" of working at Silverchair, it usually centers on our culture. The Silverchair culture is very important to us and is something we actively cultivate...
28 Oct Silverchair Universe Spotlight: PSI
The Silverchair Universe is a framework of complementary products and services that publishers may choose to integrate with the Silverchair Platform. Universe partners are best-in-class vendors that provide everything from...
25 Oct An Executive’s Guide to Kickstarting Digital Transformation
Silverchair's sister company, Hum, recently release a new whitepaper, "An Executive's Guide to Kickstarting Digital Transformation." The report promotes a process of incremental, iterative change, an idea that those of us...
25 Oct Guest Post: So, what do I do with all these videos now?!
This guest blog is written by Jessica Lawrence-Hurt, Chief Marketing Officer at Cadmore Media, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. If you’re like many associations and societies, you now find...
22 Oct PI 17 Recap
It’s hard to believe fall is here and that we’re all starting to plan for the holiday season. This hasn’t slowed down Team Silverchair, and we delivered some great features...
14 Oct Silverchair Analytics Upgrade
Earlier this year, we launched Silverchair Analytics, a new analytics solution that leveraged live data streams to give real-time insights to publishers. As with all Silverchair offerings, Silverchair Analytics is continuously improved...
14 Oct The American Registry of Pathology Selects Silverchair to Host Its Digital Library
(Charlottesville, VA and Arlington, VA) October 14, 2021 – Silverchair and the American Registry of Pathology Press announced today a new partnership to develop and host the digital version of...
13 Oct PI 18 Preview
It’s hard to believe it, but we’ve just completed the first sprint of our last PI of 2021. This has been a year with a few pivots in regards to...
04 Oct 2021 Fall Forum: Background & Agenda
Over the past six months, we've enjoyed having the opportunity to regularly engage with you on key platform and industry topics through the Silverchair Forum @Home and Platform Strategies Webinar...
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...
23 Sep The American Journal of Occupational Therapy Launches with an Upgraded Interface & Modern User Experience
(Charlottesville, VA and North Bethesda, MD) September 23, 2021 – Silverchair and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) announced today the launch of the significantly upgraded American Journal of Occupational...
21 Sep MLA Handbook Plus Launches as a Digital Resource on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and New York, NY) September 21, 2021 – The Modern Language Association and Silverchair announced today the launch of MLA Handbook Plus, a digital-subscription version of the flagship...
15 Sep Silverchair partners American Medical Association and Rockefeller University Press join GetFTR
View the original release on the GetFTR website here. The American Medical Association and Rockefeller University Press have today announced their partnership with Get Full Text Research (GetFTR), a free-to-use solution...
13 Sep Do research-paper recommendations work?
This guest blog is written by Michael Upshall, Head of Sales & Business Development at UNSILO, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Most content-based websites contain recommendations. Whether you are...
09 Sep Analytics 101: Recording & Additional Resources
Watch the recording from the August 2021 Silverchair Forum event and explore the resources below to help answer your data questions and more. Further reading & resources: Silverchair’s Google Analytics Starter...
26 Aug Working at Silverchair: Why we love being headquartered in Cville
Since our founding in 1993, Silverchair has been headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Over the years, we expanded to include several remote employees and recently shifted to a full hybrid work...
23 Aug Telling your data story: getting started with data points & sources
Scholarly publishers are sitting on a wealth of content and user data from myriad sources. As organizations strive to reap the value from the insights these data sources provide, the...
19 Aug Introducing the NEW Silverchair Platform User Guides
Connected to the launch of the Tools Portal is the release of redesigned, updated, and upgraded Silverchair Platform Tool User Guides. The project to refresh our user guides has been...
19 Aug PI 17 Preview
While it may be the summer doldrums in Virginia right now, Silverchairians are filling these dog days of summer with tireless work to cross items off of our list for...
18 Aug Google Analytics Starter Guide
Google Analytics (GA) is an extremely valuable but also complex tool. This guide is designed to help Silverchair clients get started in navigating GA's different areas, discovering useful metrics and data,...
29 Jul National Intern Day: Marketing Corner
In honor of National Intern Day (July 29th) Silverchair’s Forge Summer Intern, Mary Larkin Douthitt, joined Director of Marketing Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen to talk all things marketing, since Mary Larkin...
29 Jul Karger Publishers Selects Silverchair to Connect and Advance Health Sciences
Silverchair and Karger Publishers have announced an agreement to host Karger’s extensive portfolio of health sciences content on the Silverchair Platform. Karger Publishers is a globally active independent publisher dedicated to...
15 Jul Get to Know the Team: What we love about Silverchair
As Silverchair clients know, in each of our sprintly (every 3 weeks) platform release notes emails, we feature a spotlight on a Silverchair staff member. These spotlights include the “in...
15 Jul Welcome to the Forum Hub
If you're reading this post, it means you've already found your way to our new Silverchair-client-only space, The Forum Hub—welcome! The recent absence of in-person meetings and the community-building that took...
14 Jul Silverchair Analytics Launches, Providing Flexible, Real-Time Insights to all Silverchair Publishers
(Charlottesville, VA) July 14, 2020 – Silverchair today announced the launch of Silverchair Analytics, the platform’s new streaming analytics and data analysis solution. Silverchair Analytics offers access to real-time data...
08 Jul 2021 Publisher Working Groups
As part of Silverchair's ongoing dedication to partnership, we convene specialized Publisher Working Groups for 4-6 month periods, centered on topics surfaced at our annual Silverchair Forum client events, shared...
06 Jul Report: Getting the Most Mileage from Your Content
The changes brought by the events of 2020 have led publishers to examine and think creatively about their value proposition and how they can monetize their content and data assets....
23 Jun Getting Back to “Business as Usual” – A Framework
In May, Silverchair hosted Lauren Kane (Chief Strategy Officer of Morressier) and Will Schweitzer (Chief Product and Customer Success Officer of Silverchair) for the first event in the 2021 Platform...
02 Jun Coming Soon: Silverchair Analytics
Last December, we announced the development of Silverchair Analytics, our new cloud-based analytics solution and data visualization tool. Now, we’d like to give you additional insight into this new offering, how...
25 May The MIT Press Journals Join MIT Press Direct on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Cambridge, MA) May 25, 2021 – Silverchair and the MIT Press announce the launch of 39 of the Press’s journals on the Silverchair Platform. These journals join...
24 May The Modern Language Association Selects Silverchair
(Charlottesville, VA and New York, NY) May 24, 2021 – Silverchair announced today a new partnership with the Modern Language Association (MLA) to host MLA Handbook Plus, a digital-subscription version...
20 May Silverchair’s Workplace of the Future Comes Into Sharper Focus
In April, Silverchair released our second Workplace of the Future survey to ask more of the questions we need answered in order to fine-tune our evolving hybrid work model. We compiled some insightful data...
19 May The American Diabetes Association Selects Silverchair as a Unified Content Hosting Partner
(Charlottesville, VA and Arlington, VA) May 19, 2021 – Silverchair and the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) announced a new partnership today to migrate the ADA’s content to the Silverchair Platform,...
18 May Silverchair Joins GetFTR
May 18, 2021 – Silverchair, the leading independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers, has adopted GetFTR (Get Full Text Research) technology, supporting a more streamlined and smarter way...
13 May 2020 Publisher Working Groups: University Presses
Last year, as part of our commitment to partnership, Silverchair assembled specialized Publisher Working Groups. The working groups are time-bound and focus on topics surfaced at Silverchair Forum events, shared areas...
06 May 2020 Publisher Working Groups: Curation & Commerce
Last year, as part of our commitment to partnership, Silverchair assembled specialized Publisher Working Groups. The working groups are time-bound and focus on topics surfaced at Silverchair Forum events, shared areas...
26 Apr Now hosting: “Persephone Ascending,” A Multi-site Group Show of Virginia Women Artists
Silverchair is proud to be hosting local artist Barbara MacCallum as part of Persephone Ascending, a multi-site show of Virginia women artists. Persephone Ascending is on view for the month...
22 Apr Earth Day and the Earth Sciences: Connecting Geology and Sustainability
This guest post is authored by Phoebe McMellon, CEO of GeoScienceWorld For well over a year, the world’s attention has been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, a crisis unlike anything we...
19 Apr The Company of Biologists Launches New Journal Sites on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Cambridge, UK) April 19, 2021 – The Company of Biologists has migrated its leading journals to the Silverchair Platform, improving user experience and maximizing the discoverability of...
15 Apr 2020 Publisher Working Groups: Future First-Class Objects
Last year, as part of our commitment to partnership, Silverchair assembled specialized Publisher Working Groups. The working groups are time-bound and focus on topics surfaced at Silverchair Forum events, shared areas...
13 Apr Announcing the 2021 Platform Strategies Webinar Series
As with everything else last year, Silverchair's 2020 Platform Strategies event was shifted to virtual, with three individual events spread across five months. While we missed the dinners and side conversations, the...
08 Apr 2020 Publisher Working Groups: Text and Data Mining
Last year, as part of our commitment to partnership, Silverchair assembled specialized Publisher Working Groups. The working groups are time-bound and focus on topics surfaced at Silverchair Forum events, shared areas...
05 Apr Noise vs. Knowledge
This guest blog is written by Charles Thiede, CEO & Co-Founder of Zapnito, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. For all knowledge industries, social media has become unfeasible as a means to...
31 Mar IFIS Launches IFIS Collections on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Wokingham, UK) March 31, 2021 – Silverchair and IFIS announced today the launch of IFIS Collections on the Silverchair Platform. These human-curated, sector-specific databases are designed to aid...
29 Mar How to Make Video Meetings Less Terrible
I have been hearing for months how exhausted everyone is by the endless parade of video meetings. There is good reason for this. Yet, even as the prospect of reopening becomes...
23 Mar AACR Engages Silverchair to Expand the Reach & Impact of Cancer Research Publications
(Charlottesville, VA and Philadelphia, PA) March 23, 2021 – Silverchair announced today an agreement with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) to migrate their content to the Silverchair Platform. Reflecting...
15 Mar Innovation to Revive a Declining Publishing Model
Last week, we introduced Hum, a new Silverchair sister company providing audience intelligence solutions for associations, societies, and publishers. Here, Silverchair CEO Thane Kerner adds context to Hum's creation and...
05 Mar Employee Appreciation Day 2021
In honor of Employee Appreciation Day, Silverchair's executive team shared the messages below with our team. (Tim Barton, President) The idea of ‘Employee Appreciation Day’ doesn’t quite sit right with me....
01 Mar Knowledge Graphs and Academic Publishing: Providing a Framework and Context for Your Content
This guest blog is written by Ruth Pickering, COO of Yewno Inc., a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Knowledge is essential to human culture. Systems of belief, understanding of oneself, one’s group,...
22 Feb Content Diversity & Platform Development: Strategies for Supporting New Formats
The following is based on a recent presentation given during the NISO webinar “Content Presentation: Diversity of Formats.” Silverchair hosts journals, books, proceedings, and many other content types, in addition to...
12 Feb Here to Stay: Planning for the Remote Hybrid Future
My first introduction to remote work was in the early 2000s, when I started doing some HR consulting from my tiny apartment in DC. This was still during the time...
09 Feb Content Clarity: Audit, Analysis, and Insight Into Your Content Library
This guest blog is written by Marianne Calilhanna and Brian Trombley of Data Conversion Laboratory, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. It’s difficult to get an exact count of how many...
08 Feb The American Academy of Pediatrics Selects Silverchair to Host Its Publishing Platform
Silverchair expands their partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics to host their ebook, journal, and member news content....
25 Jan AOTA Renews Partnership with Silverchair
(Charlottesville, VA and North Bethesda, MD) January 25, 2021 – Silverchair and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) announced today the extension of their strategic product development partnership, as well...
19 Jan The American Medical Association and Silverchair Expand Collaboration with AMA Guides® Launch
(Charlottesville, VA) January 19, 2021 – Silverchair announced today the launch of AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment® on the Silverchair Platform, an expansion of their collaboration with the...
14 Jan 2020 in Hindsight: A Silverchair Retrospective
The success of Silverchair has always been based on the relationships we build, and for all the turmoil that 2020 brought, it also provided opportunities for us to deepen and...
12 Jan The Society of Petroleum Engineers Launches OnePetro® on the Silverchair Platform
Silverchair and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) announce the launch of their multi-publisher online library, OnePetro®, on the Silverchair Platform....
05 Jan New Year’s Evolutions: Tips & Tricks for Publishers
It's the start of a new year, and for many of us, simply getting through 2020 is enough of an achievement. But if you are ready to hit the ground...
15 Dec VIDEO BLOG: A behind-the-scenes interview about the new Silverchair Composer
Silverchair recently announced the launch of Composer, a new authoring product that extends first-class publication treatment to content such as blogs, commercial or sponsored content, journalistic features, marketing pieces, news,...
14 Dec Community Spotlight: Giving Back in the Year of Pandemic
It’s the time of year when we turn attention to ways we can give back to our community and to those in need. This year has thrown into the spotlight...
10 Dec Silverchair Drives Innovation with the Announcement of Three Major Product Tools
Silverchair announces three major product developments that provide publishers with broader support for their content and deeper insights to meet business needs....
02 Dec Introducing Silverchair Composer
Silverchair announces the launch of Silverchair Composer, a market-leading new authoring product that allows publishers to bring even more of their content into a single user experience....
24 Nov Zero-party data: Capturing user attention and selling Products
The following is excerpted from the ConTech Week 2020 presentation of the same title. What is Zero-Party data? “Data that a customer intentionally and proactively shares with a brand, which can...
12 Nov Fun Facts: Get to Know the Silverchair Team
As Silverchair clients know, in each of our sprintly (every 3 weeks) platform release notes emails, we feature a spotlight on a Silverchair staff member. These spotlights include the “in...
29 Oct Empathetic Leadership: How business leaders can build trust online
This guest blog is written by Christopher Sprenger, Head of Solutions at Zapnito, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Empathy is the ability to understand another...
28 Oct AI vs IA: How Will Humans and Technologies Interplay in the Future of Scholarly Communication?
Excerpts from CEO of Digital Science Daniel Hook's presentation about the preconceived biases, history, and advancement of AI....
22 Oct The Importance of Original Content in Digital Marketing
Content marketing requires a focus on the creation of unique content. Use a duplicate content checker to check for duplicate content online....
15 Oct Efficient & Scalable: Three Areas to Focus on as You Adapt Your Publishing Business
At last year’s Platform Strategies meeting, Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS, joined us for a discussion around the infrastructure, technology, strategies, and relationships needed to adapt to open access market...
08 Oct Onward & Upward: SSP New Directions Seminar Recap
At the "2020 SSP Virtual Seminar: New Directions in Scholarly Publishing," we connected with colleagues, asked questions of industry experts, and joked about missing stale conference-hall coffee. Here, we share...
29 Sep Lasting Effects – What the Pandemic Will & Won’t Change
Change and adaptation have been a near constant in 2020, but which changes will we carry forward, and which are we doing only out of necessity? Hear insights from our...
08 Sep Client Spotlight: The American Medical Association / JAMA Network™
Silverchair works with some of the most prestigious names in scholarly and professional information, spanning the worlds of professional societies and associations, university presses, commercial publishing, and government agencies. These...
28 Aug Unified Platforms and the rise of Contextual Advertising
This guest blog is written by Alexander Golubowitsch, Managing Director and Co-Founder at PubGrade, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Despite fluctuations in popularity over the past five to ten...
19 Aug Open for Business: Open Access, Open Science, and the Silverchair Platform
At its most basic definition, a publishing platform is a container for content designed specifically to meet the needs of the ways that individuals access and interact with the contents of that container. As far as access is...
11 Aug Client Spotlight: The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
Silverchair works with some of the most prestigious names in scholarly and professional information, spanning the worlds of professional societies and associations, university presses, commercial publishing, and government agencies. These...
05 Aug How publishers can drive FAIR data excellence
This guest blog is written by Alan Hyndman, Marketing Director at Figshare, a partner in the Silverchair Universe Program. In the last decade, we’ve seen repeated reports highlighting a lack of reproducibility...
04 Aug Charting the Future: Platform Development at Silverchair
The Silverchair Platform Development Plan (SPDP) is comprised of four categories, with new platform functionality or enhancements released every three weeks. Our development plan is accessible to all clients, maximizing both transparency...
29 Jul Coronavirus, text-to-speech, and the future of distance learning
This guest blog is written by Amy Foxwell of ReadSpeaker, a partner in the Silverchair Universe Program. In these months of upheaval, one wonders if life will be the same after the...
23 Jul The Future of AI: Innovation, Monetization, & the Rise of China
“I think the biggest global challenge for publishers is going to be the disruption that is coming from technology on all sides, both in terms of getting people to pay...
21 Jul Thinking Holistically About Content: Society Street Webinar Recap
In early July, Society Street hosted Paul Gee, Vice President of Product Management and Development for the JAMA Network, and Julie Gill, Vice President and General Manager for AMA Ed...
20 Jul Silverchair Partners with IFIS to Support Research in the Sciences of Food & Health
(Charlottesville, VA and Wokingham, UK) July 20, 2020 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with IFIS to host content from their renowned FSTA database. FSTA is the key resource for searching...
16 Jul From Our Shelves: A Silverchair Reading List
Summer is here and despite the fact that most of our “vacations” are taking us no further than our guest bedrooms, we’re making time to step away from work, rejuvenate,...
24 Jun The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Selects Silverchair to Host Resident Curriculum
(Charlottesville, VA and Rosemont, IL) June 24, 2020 – Silverchair and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) announced today an agreement to develop and host the AAOS Orthopaedic Resident...
17 Jun Using AI Tools for Recommendations
This guest blog is written by Michael Upshall, Head of Sales and Business Development for UNSILO, a CACTUS brand, and a partner in the Silverchair Universe Program. Recommender systems are not...
03 Jun Content Marketing for Scholarly Publishers: Leveraging Your Strongest Asset
Content marketing has replaced traditional advertising in nearly every industry. Scholarly publishers have a unique advantage in adapting to this trend, since the product itself is rich with content that...
01 Jun Analytics to Action: How Recent Changes to Google Analytics Affect How Publishers Are Able to Understand and Convert their Audiences
This guest blog is written by Debbie Wilton, Marketing Manager for PSI, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. To know that an article was viewed or downloaded one hundred or...
26 May How AI Mimics the Complexity of the Human Mind in Discovery
This guest blog is written by Manisha Bolina, Channel Partner Manager - International, at Yewno, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Discoverability of content, taxonomies and metadata have always been among...
18 May The Positive Side Effects of a Platform Migration
Selecting the best platform for your organization and partnering with service providers who have deep experience results in a healthy digital transformation. This post explores the positive side effects publishers...
15 May Perspective: The Importance of Technology Partners in Times of Crisis
In this report, we share ideas and insights from the Silverchair community on how to adapt to or negotiate through times of crisis....
11 May Silverchair and University of California Press Launch Next Generation Journals Hosting Platform
Silverchair and University of California Press announce the launch of UC Press’ 110,000+ article in 6000+ journal issues on the Silverchair Platform....
05 May Virtual Culture Club: Hiring & Onboarding in a Remote Environment
When asked what people like most about working at Silverchair, the top two responses are the culture and the people. Our culture isn't something that just happened, it is something...
24 Apr Silverchair Appoints Will Schweitzer Chief Product Officer
The September 22, 2023 issue of Outsell incorrectly linked to this release. Please find the correct announcement here. (Charlottesville, VA) April 24, 2020 – Silverchair is pleased to announce the appointment...
24 Apr Altmetric vs. Dimensions Badges: Understanding the Full Story About Research
This guest blog is written by Cathy Holland, Director, Global Publisher Business Development at Digital Science, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Here at Digital Science we are no stranger...
22 Apr Earth Day 2020: Sustaining a Sustainable Office Environment
The office that I care for is now almost 100% remote. As Silverchair has settled into tele-working, perhaps a few folks are undergoing mild withdraw symptoms attributable to an aggressive...
09 Apr Portland Press Launches New Site for Life Sciences Content on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) April 9, 2020 – Silverchair and Portland Press announced today the launch of Portland Press’ journal sites on the Silverchair Platform. Publishing world-leading research and reviews...
07 Apr Convert Readers to an Engaged Audience with Content Discovery
This guest blog is written by Lea Aliperta Mourissoux, Head of Marketing at Bibblio, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. In the past few months we’ve witnessed an increase in...
31 Mar The Company of Biologists Selects Silverchair to Host Leading Biology Publications
Silverchair and The Company of Biologists today announced a new partnership to host the leading, peer-reviewed journals published by The Company of Biologists, improving user experience and maximizing the discoverability...
24 Mar Why online-only event communities don’t have to be a consolation prize: 10 reasons why they beat in-person events
Silverchair Universe partner Zapnito looks at why virtual events can be better than in-person events....
13 Feb Allen Press and Silverchair Launch Meridian, Expanding Digital Publishing Technology for Society Publishers
(LAWRENCE, Kan. and CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) – February 13, 2020 – Allen Press, Inc. and Silverchair announced today the launch of Meridian, a digital publishing platform and service of Allen Press,...
12 Dec The American Medical Association (AMA) Extends Partnership with Silverchair for the JAMA Network
Silverchair and the American Medical Association (AMA) announced today that they have extended their partnership on the JAMA Network through 2023....
11 Dec Rockefeller University Press Launches Leading Biomedical Research Journals on the Silverchair Platform
Rockefeller University Press (RUP) and Silverchair announced today the launch of RUP’s leading biomedical research journals - Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and Journal of...
04 Dec Cadmore Media Joins the Silverchair Universe to Offer Enhanced Streaming Media Experience on the Silverchair Platform
Silverchair announced today the addition of Cadmore Media, a company providing streaming media publishing services, to the Silverchair Universe, the Silverchair Platform’s certified partner network....
25 Nov Silverchair Welcomes scite to the Silverchair Universe to Help Improve How Publishers are Using Citations
Silverchair announced today the addition of scite, a company that enables anyone to see how a scientific report has been cited, to the Silverchair Universe, the Silverchair Platform’s certified partner...
22 Nov AACN Launches Enhanced Site for Critical Care Nursing Journals on Silverchair Platform
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and Silverchair announced today the launch of AACN’s peer-reviewed journals on the Silverchair Platform....
21 Nov Silverchair Releases New Analysis and Content Service to Support Text and Data Mining
Silverchair announced today the release of a new Analysis and Content Service to support scholarly text and data mining. The new service represents a significant enhancement of the Silverchair Platform...
14 Nov The Society of Petroleum Engineers Selects Silverchair to Host OnePetro®
(Charlottesville, VA and Richardson, TX) November 14, 2019 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) to host their multi-publisher online library, OnePetro®....
19 Sep Data Conversion Laboratory Joins the Silverchair Universe to Improve Content Reliability While Minimizing Costs for Clients
(Charlottesville, VA and Fresh Meadows, NY) September 19, 2019 – Silverchair announced today the addition of Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), a company providing data and content transformation services, to the...
03 Sep Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 7
Silverchair’s Platform Strategies meeting, an industry conference exploring the intersection of business strategy and technology, will be held in New York City on September 25 and 26. In this series of...
29 Aug Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 6
Silverchair’s Platform Strategies meeting, an industry conference exploring the intersection of business strategy and technology, will be held in New York City on September 25 and 26. In this series of...
27 Aug Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 5
Silverchair’s Platform Strategies meeting, an industry conference exploring the intersection of business strategy and technology, will be held in New York City on September 25 and 26. In this series of...
22 Aug Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 4
Silverchair’s Platform Strategies meeting, an industry conference exploring the intersection of business strategy and technology, will be held in New York City on September 25 and 26. In this series of...
20 Aug Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 3
Silverchair’s Platform Strategies meeting, an industry conference exploring the intersection of business strategy and technology, will be held in New York City on September 25 and 26. In this series of...
09 Aug Platform Strategies 2019 – A Compelling Agenda is Taking Shape
Silverchair’s Platform Strategies meeting, an industry conference exploring the intersection of business strategy and technology, will be held in New York City on September 25 and 26. In this series of...
05 Aug Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 2
Silverchair’s Platform Strategies meeting, an industry conference exploring the intersection of business strategy and technology, will be held in New York City on September 25 and 26. In this series of...
19 Jul Platform Strategies 2019 – What I’m Looking Forward To: Part 1
Silverchair’s Platform Strategies meeting, an industry conference exploring the intersection of business strategy and technology, will be held in New York City on September 25 and 26. In this series of...
16 Jul Silverchair and University of California Press Announce Next Generation Platform for UC Press’s Diverse Journal Portfolio
(Charlottesville, VA and Oakland, CA) July 16, 2019 – Silverchair announced today that University of California Press (UC Press) has selected the Silverchair Platform for its journals hosting solution. As...
22 Apr Plan S: Why Collaboration Will Prove Key to Successful Compliance
This guest blog is written by Inez van Korlaar, Marketing Director at Dimensions (part of Digital Science), a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. With the Plan S 2020 deadline now less...
05 Mar AACN Partners with Silverchair to Upgrade Key Critical Care Nursing Journals
(Charlottesville, Va. and Aliso Viejo, Calif.) March 5, 2019 – Silverchair announced today an agreement with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) to migrate its award-winning and nationally recognized...
26 Feb Rockefeller University Press Selects Silverchair to Host Journals
(Charlottesville, VA and New York, NY) February 26, 2019 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with Rockefeller University Press (RUP) to host their leading biomedical research hybrid journals - Journal...
07 Feb Silverchair Invests in Platform and Innovation with Two New Product Executives
(Charlottesville, VA) February 7, 2019 – Silverchair announced today the appointments of Will Schweitzer as Senior Vice President, Product Management, and Dustin Smith as Director of New Product Development and...
07 Feb The Vital Importance of Discovery in Scholarly Publishing
This guest blog is written by Bert Carelli, Director of Partnerships at TrendMD, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. How do researchers stay on top of new developments in a fast-moving field? ...
29 Jan Developing Developers: The Paths to Coding Software as a Career
If a healthy salary, job satisfaction, and super-low unemployment rate are high on your priority list, a career as a software developer might be for you. For the second year...
28 Jan The American Society of Hematology Selects Silverchair to Host Premier Clinical and Scientific Research
(Charlottesville, VA and Washington, DC) January 28, 2019 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to host its esteemed content on the Silverchair Platform. For...
23 Jan The Data Opportunities for Publishers in 2019
This guest blog is written by Alan Hyndman, Marketing Director at Figshare, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. In recent years, we have seen the topic of research data increase in importance...
16 Jan ASM International Launches a Unified Materials Information Digital Library on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Cleveland, OH) January 16, 2019 – ASM International and Silverchair announced today the launch of the ASM Digital Library on the Silverchair Platform. The ASM Digital Library...
15 Jan New Content from GeoScienceWorld Now Live on the Silverchair Platform: GeoArabia Archive and Special Publications
(McLean, VA) January 15, 2019 - GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is pleased to announce the addition of the journal GeoArabia archive (1996 – 2015) and special publications to its domain-leading collection of...
11 Jan Inspire, Catalyze, and Support: the Silverchair Workplace
The start of a new year provides a chance to reflect and to set goals, both personally and professionally. Below, Silverchair’s Chief Operating Officer offers his ruminations on the Silverchair...
13 Dec Allen Press and Silverchair Announce Partnership to Expand Online Publishing Technology for Society Publishers
(LAWRENCE, Kan. and CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) – December 13, 2018 – Allen Press, Inc. and Silverchair are pleased to announce a new online publishing partnership. Beginning in 2019, Silverchair will be...
06 Dec Protecting Your Work: Tracking Content Use for Plagiarism and Citation
This guest blog is written by Brooke Weinbaum, Head of Marketing at Copyleaks, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. Writing content of any kind requires a lot of work, from...
29 Nov Silverchair Delivers Text-to-Speech via ReadSpeaker Integration
McGraw-Hill Education Launches ReadSpeaker Functionality on the Silverchair Platform November 29, 2018 (CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA & FOXBORO, MA): Silverchair announced today that it has partnered with ReadSpeaker to offer market-leading text-to-speech capabilities...
27 Nov Silverchair Update on Google Scholar Initiatives & Partnership
(Charlottesville, VA) November 27, 2018 – Silverchair today announced an update on its participation in several industry initiatives led by Google Scholar and implemented on the Silverchair Platform. In 2018,...
20 Nov Agency, Motivation, and Learning
A group of Silverchairians (myself included) recently attended the SWITCH ON! Summit, organized by Charlottesville Women in Tech. The summit focused on igniting your professional tech network by learning, collaborating,...
01 Nov Opportunities in Data: Using, Verifying, and Protecting Information in an Era When “Data is King”
This guest blog is written by Debbie Wilton, Marketing Manager for PSI, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. We collectively operate in a world where “data is king.” The data...
29 Oct Code Ocean Joins the Silverchair Universe to Enhance Reproducibility and Momentum of Research
(Charlottesville, VA) October 29, 2018 – Silverchair announced today the addition of Code Ocean to the Silverchair Universe, a framework for rapidly integrating complementary products and services with the Silverchair...
26 Oct Why a Seamless Learner Experience is Critical for Continuing Education
This guest blog is written by Adam Green of Rievent, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. When it comes to continuing education (CE) for professionals, we live in the era of more. More professionals...
19 Oct Reflections from Platform Strategies 2018, Part 3
I joined Silverchair as President earlier this year, and it’s my privilege to offer some reflections on Silverchair’s recent Platform Strategies meeting. In our opening panel of Technology Leadership, Max Gabriel...
17 Oct Profeza Joins the Silverchair Universe to Encourage Reuse of Research Content
(Charlottesville, VA) October 17, 2018 – Silverchair announced today the addition of Profeza to the Silverchair Universe, a framework for rapidly integrating complementary products and services with the Silverchair Platform....
15 Oct MIT Press Partners with Silverchair to Launch MIT Press Direct eBook Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Cambridge, MA) October 15, 2018 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with the MIT Press to develop and host a new eBooks platform, MIT Press Direct. Known for...
12 Oct Reflections from Platform Strategies 2018, Part 2
Recordings and slides from Platform Strategies 2018 are now available on our website, and we’re delighted to share more reflections from our team on the incredible insights shared during the...
05 Oct Reflections from Platform Strategies 2018, Part 1
A week has now passed since Silverchair’s inaugural Platform Strategies meeting, and we are still reeling from the excellent content, the extremely engaged audience, and the fantastic insights that arose...
26 Sep Portland Press Selects Silverchair to Deliver Their Bioscience Content
(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) September 26, 2018 – Silverchair announced today a partnership with Portland Press, the wholly owned subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, to host its life sciences...
11 Sep Silverchair Launches DermTrainer Tool for Advanced Training and Diagnosis in Dermatology
(Charlottesville, VA) September 11, 2018 – Silverchair today announced the launch of DermTrainer, a sophisticated tool developed and tested by dermatologists for teaching clinical dermatology. The tool will debut September...
05 Sep Susan Pastore Joins Silverchair as Director of Business Development
(Charlottesville, VA) September 5, 2018 – Silverchair, the leading independent platform provider for scholarly and professional publishers, announced today the appointment of Susan Pastore as Director, Business Development. This newly...
30 Jul Software Company in a Hardware Store: A History of the Silverchair Offices
Since our founding in 1993, Silverchair has been located in Charlottesville, Virginia, employing over 120 professionals with a unique combination of skills – technology, product design and development expertise, and...
26 Jul Silverchair Client Achievements: Impact Factors, Awards, and Highlights
The recently released 2018 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) featured 11,655 journal listings in 234 disciplines from 80 countries. 10 million references were used in calculating the important industry indicator, the...
10 Jul IWA Publishing Launches Next-Generation Digital Product Platform with Silverchair
(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) July 10, 2018 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and IWA Publishing announced today the launch of IWA Publishing’s acclaimed water and environmental resources on the...
02 Jul Silverchair Spotlight: A Q&A with Silverchair President, Tim Barton
Silverchair recently welcomed Tim Barton as our new President. Below, learn more about his background, his experience at Silverchair thus far, and his vision for the future. Can you give us...
14 Jun The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses Launches on the Silverchair Platform, Advancing Access to Perioperative Nursing Resources
(Charlottesville, VA and Denver, CO) June 14, 2018 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) announced today the launch of AORN’s acclaimed perioperative nursing...
12 Jun GeoScienceWorld Announces Significant Content Additions and Welcomes New Society Services Clients on the Silverchair Platform
(McLean, VA and Charlottesville, VA) June 12, 2018 - GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is pleased to welcome two new Society Services clients — the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the...
29 May Tim Barton Joins Silverchair as President
(Charlottesville, VA) May 29, 2018 – Silverchair Information Systems, a leading provider of technology platforms and services for the professional and scholarly knowledge industry, today announced that Tim Barton has...
22 May The Path to Annotation for Researchers and Publishers
This guest blog is written by Heather Staines, Director of Partnerships at Hypothesis, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. With the revelation of illegal Facebook data use by Cambridge Analytica and the...
16 May ASM International Selects Silverchair Platform for Unified Materials Information Digital Library
(Charlottesville, VA and Cleveland, OH) May 16, 2018 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) announced today a partnership with ASM International (ASM) to develop a unified hosting solution for ASM’s authoritative...
14 May The Need for Engaging, Immediate Citation Reporting
This guest blog is written by Catherine Williams, CMO of Altmetric & Dimensions, both partners in the Silverchair Universe program. There are days when it seems the reporting will never end....
09 May Variable Font Technology
Until recently, font technology had been relatively stagnant since the 90s. A new joint venture created by Google, Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft, however, has produced an exciting development that will...
04 May Agile Development at Silverchair: Program Increments
In 2017 Silverchair made significant strides to reaffirm the Agile processes and principles each team follows from sprint to sprint with role clarity, processes, and metrics. As a result, our...
21 Mar Silverchair Releases Text and Data Mining Interface Optimized for Machine Learning and AI
(Charlottesville, VA) March 21, 2018 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) announced today the release of a new Text and Data Mining Interface to the Silverchair Platform. Designed for large-scale data...
02 Feb UX Design at Silverchair
Silverchair’s User Experience (UX) team touches virtually every aspect of the product development lifecycle and is with each project from inception through to launch. Learn more about the team's areas...
15 Dec 17 of the Altmetric Top 100 Articles of 2017 Delivered via Silverchair Platform
Altmetric has released its highly anticipated Top 100 list for 2017, featuring 17 articles hosted on the Silverchair Platform. The list collects the most-discussed research based on weighted rankings from...
28 Nov Duke University Press Launches New Digital Content Site on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Durham, NC) November 27, 2017 –Duke University Press (DUP) and Silverchair Information Systems announced today the launch of DUP’s extensive collection of scholarly journals, books, and electronic...
27 Nov Silverchair Universe: Video Blog Update
Wes Royer, Director of Product, gives background on our exciting new program, what we've been working on, and what to look for in 2018. "The Silverchair Universe is intentionally a part...
21 Nov GeoScienceWorld Launches on The Silverchair Platform, Advancing Earth Science Research and Discovery
(Charlottesville, VA and McLean, VA) November 21, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems and GeoScienceWorld (GSW) today announced the launch of the new GeoScienceWorld.org on the Silverchair Platform, host to GSW’s...
17 Nov Silverchair’s Design & Marketing Teams Take Home Awards
Last night at the American Marketing Association’s Central Virginia Excellence in Marketing Awards, Silverchair took home the title in both the categories for which we submitted work: Broadcast Marketing and...
08 Nov Yewno Joins the Silverchair Universe, Offering Expanded Discoverability and Insight to Publishers on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and Redwood City, CA) November 8, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) announced today the addition of Yewno to the Silverchair Universe, providing Yewno’s unique machine-learning technology to...
07 Nov IWA Publishing and Silverchair Announce Partnership to Develop Next-Generation Digital Product Platform
(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) November 7, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and IWA Publishing announced today a new partnership to host and enrich IWA Publishing’s acclaimed water and...
18 Oct The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Extends Partnership with Silverchair through 2020
(Charlottesville, VA and Rockville, MD) October 18, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) announced today that they have extended their partnership...
14 Sep Silverchair Insights: Identifying “Toil”
Silverchair’s most recent company meeting featured a session introducing employees to the idea of "toil." CTO Stuart Leitch picked up the term coined by Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team...
08 Aug Silverchair Insights: Scrum Fundamentals & Agile Governance Survey
As part of our ongoing commitment to improving our internal processes, Silverchair recently conducted an internal survey on Scrum Fundamentals & Agile Governance. Surveys such as these are critical in...
03 Aug Impact and Beyond: Silverchair’s Publishing Landscape
(Charlottesville, VA) August 3, 2017 – The recent release of the 2016 Journal Citation Reports featured impressive rankings by numerous Silverchair-hosted journals. The results of this key industry assessment reflect...
26 Jul Silverchair Insights: Incident Management at Silverchair: Root Cause Analysis
Over the last few months, Silverchair has improved and strengthened our Incident Management Processes. One piece of the Incident Management processes that we identified for improvement was our ability to determine...
18 Jul From the Silverchair blog: “Why?”—A Question to Define Success & Add Value
If you have young kids, chances are you've lost patience with the number of times they've told you "No!" or asked you "Why?" But child development professionals will tell you that the use...
05 Jul The Geological Society of America Launches New Publications Portal on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA & Boulder, CO) July 5, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems and the Geological Society of America, Inc. (GSA), in partnership with GeoScienceWorld (GSW), today announced the launch of...
28 Jun Silverchair Insights: Communities of Practice
There's an old saying – Two heads are better than one. Stands to reason that multiple heads working together in common cause to share ideas would be even better than...
23 Jun Zapnito and Silverchair Partner to Create and Enrich Knowledge Communities
(Charlottesville, VA and London, UK) June 23, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and Zapnito announced today a new partnership to enable STM and humanities publishers, professional societies, and other...
16 Jun The SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology & The Seismological Society of America Partner with Silverchair for New Publications Portals
(Charlottesville, VA, Tulsa, OK, and Albany, CA) June 16, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems today announced partnerships with the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) and the Seismological Society of America...
09 Jun The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and Silverchair Announce Partnership to Advance Access to Perioperative Nursing Resources
(Charlottesville, VA and Denver, CO) June 9, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) announced today a new partnership to host and enrich...
19 May Silverchair Named “Business of the Year” at CBIC Awards Gala
Silverchair is honored to have been named "Business of the Year" at the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC) Awards Gala last night, and is proud to be in the excellent...
09 May Economic Geology Launches on the Silverchair Platform
(Charlottesville, VA & Littleton, CO) May 9, 2017 – Silverchair Information Systems and the Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. (SEG), in partnership with GeoScienceWorld (GSW), today announce the launch of...
05 May Silverchair Insights: Provider vs. Partner
Last month I had the opportunity to give a presentation to an audience of publishers, STM customers, and providers as part of the Association of American Publishers’ Learn, Connect, Grow series. The...
21 Apr Silverchair Insights: Getting Behind the Wheel – Professional Goals Setting
With 2017 almost 1/3 of the way done, now is a good time to take stock of the goals laid out as the year began. It is an ongoing part of one’s...
13 Apr Silverchair Insights: Working in Teams
At any company where small scrum teams operate, the typical buzzwords are teamwork, collaboration, commitment, cross-functional, and self-managed. (Bleh!, buzzwords.) But what about tension, disagreement, conflict, and debate? From this article, 'If...
02 Mar The Geological Society of America Partners with Silverchair for New Publications Portal
Silverchair and The Geological Society of America, Inc. (GSA) announce a new partnership to launch a fully integrated GSA publications portal on the Silverchair Platform for GSA’s journals and eBooks....
27 Feb ASME, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Extends Relationship with Silverchair
Silverchair announces that it has extended its partnership with The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) until 2020....
13 Feb Society of Economic Geologists Partners with Silverchair for New Publications Portal
Silverchair and the Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. (SEG) announce a new partnership to launch a fully integrated SEG Publications portal on the Silverchair Platform....
08 Feb GeoScienceWorld and Silverchair Announce Partnership to Advance Earth Sciences Research and Discovery
Silverchair and GeoScienceWorld (GSW) announce a new partnership to redevelop and enhance GSW’s domain-leading collection of earth science research on the Silverchair Platform....
18 Jan Duke University Press Selects Silverchair for New Digital Products Platform
Silverchair and Duke University Press announce a new publishing technology partnership to redevelop and host Duke University Press’s extensive collection of scholarly journals, books, and electronic collections in the humanities...
04 Jan 17 of the Altmetric Top 100 Articles of 2016 Delivered via Silverchair Platform
The Silverchair platform delivered 17 of the 100 top-scoring articles and 4 of the top 8. This includes the #1 article, the first scholarly article authored by a sitting U.S....
02 Nov Silverchair and The American Academy of Dermatology partner to launch new Dermatology Patient Education website
Silverchair and the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) announce the launch of the AAD’s Dermatology Patient Education website....
01 Oct Oxford University Press Announces Agreement with Silverchair to Accelerate its Ambitious Technology Vision
The Global Academic Division of Oxford University Press (OUP) announces it has entered into an agreement with Silverchair to migrate its extensive portfolio of journals and many of its online...