Integrity is where the quality conversation starts, not where it ends. At Platform Strategies 2026, Dustin Smith (Hum) moderated a conversation with industry leaders about what deserves a place in the scholarly record once fraud is screened out. Read the recap and watch: https://bit.ly/4ynrGCi

PS26 Recap: Beyond Integrity - Silverchair

At Platform Strategies 2026, publishing leaders looked beyond research integrity to ask what deserves a place in the scholarly record.

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Silverchair and Prophy announced that Prophy's Referee Finder is now available to ScholarOne Manuscripts clients through the Silverchair Universe program, with each recommendation carrying the reasoning behind it. Read more: https://bit.ly/4zo9Y2r

#FBM26 is off and running and the Silverchair team is in full swing. We grabbed a few pics of our booth before the madness began, but there's still time to find us at stand 4.1 F85 or at Thursday's session, "The Pressure Point: Submission Surges, Editorial Capacity, and Infrastructure" (12:30pm).

NEWS: Silverchair has announced the launch of a six-month pilot of Research Bridge, a shared MCP channel that gives independent scholarly publishers a distribution channel into the AI research assistants where researchers increasingly consume the literature. Read more: https://bit.ly/4z8n03M

Silverchair launches multi-publisher MCP pilot, expanding access to research from independent publishers - Silverchair

Research Bridge publishers expand reach to content within AI assistants while keeping their own brand, access rules, and independence.

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We are heading to Frankfurter Buchmesse next, joining publishers and industry leaders from around the globe. Looking forward to celebrating and connecting on what's next for publishing. In Frankfurt? Reach out to arrange time with our team.

One room, many mics, we gather not for the stage but for each other. — a haiku summary of last week's events from David Nygren, Chief Business Development Officer Hear from more Silverchairians AND explore the video archive for Platform Strategies 2026: https://bit.ly/3U1Dwni

Silverchairian Takeaways: Platform Strategies & 2026 Client Events - Silverchair

Last week, Silverchair hosted three unique and engaging events in Washington, DC: Platform Strategies (our annual industry conference) and two Forum Connect events (one for Silverchair Platform client...

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Grounded AI has joined the Silverchair Universe program, integrating its automated citation-checking engine, Veracity, into the ScholarOne Manuscripts publishing workflow. Read more: https://www.silverchair.com/news/grounded-ai-partners-with-silverchair/

Grounded AI Partners with Silverchair to Bring Veracity’s Citation Analysis Directly to ScholarOne Integrity Checks - Silverchair

Grounded AI announced a strategic partnership with Silverchair to integrate its automated citation-checking engine into ScholarOne.

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We're heading to STM's Dinner & Conference in Frankfurt next week, joining publishers and technology partners exploring how our industry operationalizes trust amid AI and shifting policy landscapes. If you'll be in Frankfurt, we'd love to connect. Reach out to arrange time with our team.

This year we really stacked the deck with our Platform Strategies swag: scholarly publishing playing cards. 🃏 Take a peek at some of the designs and learn more about the creative process behind their creation on our blog. https://www.silverchair.com/news/publishing-playing-cards/

What a way to close out the week! Attendees heard more about ScholarOne's long-term vision which made the case that solving the problems beneath the strain is the only way forward for peer review. We closed with our exectuvie team opening up the floor to a Q&A session, then raised a glass together.

The final day of our DC events is off to a great start! We heard from CEO Will Schweitzer and other leaders about what our teams have planned and have delivered, and are looking forward to afternoon workshops to close things out.

Good morning from our final day in DC! Our client event for ScholarOne Manuscripts kicks off this morning with a keynote presentation from Silverchair CEO Will Schweitzer.

What a day at Platform Strategies 2026! We explored why integrity checks alone can't guarantee research quality as AI reshapes discovery, the future of the platform, and lessons from outside our industry. Jacob Ward closed by asking what we need to protect from AI. Thank you all! #strategies26

Platform Strategies is underway! CEO Will Schweitzer opened on this year's theme, Signal & Noise, and Johns Hopkins' Wendy Queen gave a candid keynote on how AI has reshaped researcher workflows and turning conference ideas into action. Heading into lunch with plenty to think about! #strategies26

Good morning from Washington, DC! Platform Strategies 2026 officially kicks off this morning with a welcome address from our very own CEO, Will Schweitzer. Stay tuned for photos and updates throughout the day.

What a first day at Forum Connect! Our Platform clients explored breakout workshops on machine-legible content, protecting authority, and new paths to growth, then watched our exec team pitch industry assumptions worth rethinking. Thanks to everyone who joined us on the first day in DC!

Good morning from the first day of Silverchair events in Washington, DC! Forum Connect, our Silverchair Platform client event, kicks off later this morning with a Welcome Address from Silverchair's Chief Product and Customer Success Officer, Emily Delquié.

Sustainability is part of how we show up at our events. #strategies26 nametags are made from sustainably farmed bamboo, and we're giving attendees the option to bring theirs back year after year. We're already seeing that idea take hold: 68 attendees are reusing their nametags from last year!

Platform Strategies 2026 kicks off on Wednesday! Throughout the day, attendees will take part in interactive table topics, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities, while also hearing from industry leaders on trends shaping the industry. Stay tuned for updates! #strategies26

As we gear up for #strategies26, we're taking a look back at our Platform Strategies 2025 time capsule. Last year's predictions ranged from "success through integrations" to bolder takes like automation is overrated, curation is underrated. What's your prediction for the year ahead? See you in DC!

This month our APAC team crossed two cities: Seoul for our APAC Partner Meeting with Korea and Japan partners, and Chengdu for our ScholarOne user roundtable with Tianfu Xinglong Lake Laboratory, more below: APAC Partner Meeting: https://bit.ly/46pZ9QX ScholarOne Chengdu: https://bit.ly/4rffIbI

AI systems can now run multi-step research on a scholarly corpus that once took researchers hours. We tested five prompts on the Oxford Academic corpus. What came back wasn't a list of results, it was a document. What that means for publishers: https://www.silverchair.com/news/beyond-search/

Beyond Search: From Retrieval to Research Sessions - Silverchair

How we tested AI's ability to conduct deep, multi-step research against Oxford Academic's scholarly corpus.

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Platform Strategies 2026 is one week away! #Strategies26Get connects you with peers in scholarly publishing, digs into what's next for our industry, and helps you leave with ideas to put to work. Missed registration? Visit the archive to watch sessions from previous years: https://bit.ly/4r3EbAI

Peer review is pulled three ways: authors drive volume, editors set pace, reviewers and editors guard quality. Submissions are up ~68% since 2018, desk rejects too. Our VP Hannah Heckner Swain unpacks why in a new Scholarly Kitchen post, via our 2026 Peer Review Report. https://bit.ly/4jb35MK

Guest Post — Peer Review Triage: Deciding What’s Worth Saving - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's guest post asks what about our current peer review system is worth saving and if we're able to establish one that protects editorial judgment and preserves research integrity.

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Silverchair’s Tech Leads team got together IRL recently to tackle some exciting projects and plans. ⚙️🛠️ We love our remote culture, but sometimes in-person collaboration is what it takes to break through to new levels and ideas.

📊📈 NEW: Stop Measuring What's Easy, a whitepaper on publisher analytics. This free guide explores trends in usage & peer review reporting through the lens of the current changes to content creation, consumption, & discovery via AI. Download now: https://bit.ly/4xejX8P

REPORT: Analytics Whitepaper - Silverchair

A publisher's guide to metrics that matter, from submission to discovery. Learn why usage and citations fall short in the age of AI.

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AI has made drafting cheap, and cheap drafting produces volume. At Silverchair, we hold ourselves to a standard: edit hard, write in your own voice, match the format to the question. CEO Will Schweitzer on the discipline behind our AI use: https://www.silverchair.com/news/a-screed-against-ai-slop/

We own every word we send (a screed against AI slop) - Silverchair

AI makes drafting cheap, but judgment still has to be human. Here's the writing standard Silverchair holds itself to.

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We're heading to SSP's New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar in Cambridge next month, and are proud to sponsor a day at MIT exploring editorial judgment in the AI era, scholarly integrity, and the journal of 2030. If you'll be there, let's connect!

"Silverchair has a spark that makes it an incredibly fun, engaging, and exciting place to work. The people are smart, hardworking, and fun, and the leadership is highly engaged and committed to constant learning and growth." Learn more about working at Silverchair: https://bit.ly/30G94gY

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Silverchair's integration with Global Campus is now fully live in ScholarOne Manuscripts. Editors can find peer reviewers without leaving their workflow, using semantic AI matched against 90M+ experts and 450M+ scholarly works from OpenAlex. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hYGfrj

Global Campus Integration with ScholarOne Manuscripts Now Live - Silverchair

Silverchair announces the Global Campus integration with ScholarOne Manuscripts is now fully live and available to publishers.

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