Silverchair (Technology Company)
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| Industry | Software |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Charlottesville, Virginia, USA |
| Website | silverchair |
Silverchair is a technology company that operates in the global scholarly and professional publishing industry, serving primarily as an online publishing platform.[1] Silverchair was founded by Thane Kerner and Elizabeth Willingham in 1993 in Charlottesville, Virginia.[2]
The company's flagship offering is the Silverchair Platform, a content hosting and delivery platform used by scholarly and professional publishers, including the American Medical Association,[3] the MIT Press,[4] and Oxford University Press.[5]
History
Silverchair was founded in 1993 as a packager for medical textbooks. The name of the company is based on The Chronicles of Narnia, particularly the fourth book, The Silver Chair.[6] Over time, Silverchair evolved with the digital transformation of the publishing industry. Silverchair's first digital offering was a textbook, Neurology in Clinical Practice, in 1997 on a CD-ROM.[6]
In 2010, Silverchair launched the Silverchair Content Manager Version 6,[7] now The Silverchair Platform. The Platform provides online sites and products for professional and scholarly publishers to share and manage their content.[8] The Silverchair Platform provides research publishers with tools to publish, sell, and deliver their content to researchers, institutions, and organizations.[9]
In May of 2012, Silverchair sold off an arm of their business, Silverchair Learning Systems, to Vista Equity Partners[10] and was subsequently sold to Bertlesmann[11] in 2014.[12] In 2022, it divested Hum, a customer data platform product,[13] from their new product development arm.
In 2022, Silverchair received a growth investment from Thompson Street Capital Partners.[14] Thompson Street Capital Partners have worked with companies such as Palisade, Gurobi, and T-Base Communications.
Products and services
The Silverchair Platform hosts science, technology, medicine, humanities, and social sciences content on behalf of publisher clients.[15] Users include scholars, researchers, and professionals. Hosted content includes journals, books, conference proceedings, videos, and other digital materials.[16][17] Silverchair's technology focuses on content hosting, delivery, and monetization, providing publishers to with tools manage and distribute their content.[18]
Silverchair also hosts an annual industry conference, Platform Strategies,[19] to discuss challenges and strategies specific to platform technologies in the scholarly and professional publishing space.[20]
References
- ↑ "Spotlight on Generations Fund Supporter: Silverchair". SSP Society for Scholarly Publishing. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
- ↑ "Silverchair Information Systems - Cvillepedia". www.cvillepedia.org. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ↑ "The JAMA Network Debuts on Silverchair's SCM6 Platform". www.businesswire.com. 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ SupaduDev (2019-01-22). "The MIT Press launches MIT Press Direct on the Silverchair Platform". MIT Press. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ Price, Gary (2015-10-02). "Global Academic Division, Oxford University Press Will Migrate All Content to Silverchair's SCM Platform". Library Journal infoDOCKET. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hansen, Stephanie Lovegrove (2023-08-18). "Silverchair: A Company History". Silverchair. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
- ↑ "Silverchair: Powerful Platform Flexibility for What's Next | Research Information". www.researchinformation.info. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
- ↑ "The critical range of publishing platforms | Research Information". www.researchinformation.info. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ↑ "Silverchair Information Systems Selects RagingWire's Ashburn, Virginia Data Center to Host Innovative SCM6 Publishing Platform". Yahoo Finance. 2013-09-19. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
- ↑ [email protected] | 978-7243, Nate Delesline III (2012-05-22). "Charlottesville's Silverchair Learning Systems sold to Calif. company". The Daily Progress. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ "Reuters: PowerSchool's Private Equity Owner Is Exploring Sales Options - EdSurge News". EdSurge. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
- ↑ "Silverchair announces aggressive strategic growth plan, focus strategy and resources through divestiture". Healthcare Finance News. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
- ↑ Hum. "Hum Launches AI-Powered, First-Party Data Solution for Scholarly Publishers". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ↑ "Thompson Street Capital Partners Completes Growth Investment in Silverchair". Thompson Street Capital Partners. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
- ↑ Schonfeld, Roger C. (2022-08-15). "Keeping Publishing Infrastructure Independent". The Scholarly Kitchen. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
- ↑ "Silverchair Information Systems - Cvillepedia". www.cvillepedia.org. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
- ↑ "Case Study_AIPP". DCL. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ↑ "The critical range of publishing platforms | Research Information". www.researchinformation.info. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
- ↑ "Platform Strategies 2023". OpenAthens. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ↑ "From Digital to Data: Marketing Strategies and Technologies for the Next Era | Clarke & Esposito". www.ce-strategy.com. 2023-09-28. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
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