Business operations and strategy

AI Academy

AI Academy is an internal program designed to train staff on AI tools and applications, aiming to enhance employees’ proficiency in artificial intelligence across various departments.

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EasyJournal

Using AI—particularly Anthropic’s Claude—and a development process described as “vibe coding,” Adam Hyde built two scholarly publishing platforms: EasyJournal (a more conventional system) and Kotahi (a collaborative-first alternative). EasyJournal mirrors legacy platforms like OJS and Janeway, while Kotahi…

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RAG Evaluation Framework

A collaborative system to benchmark and compare Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures using real-world publisher content. Silverchair and OpenSource Connections co-designed a robust evaluation pipeline—using Python, LlamaIndex, RAGAS, and LangSmith—to generate question-context-answer triplets, run RAG models, and score outputs…

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ReviewBench

ReviewBench is an open-source, venue-agnostic framework comparing human and AI reviews across structure, alignment with a paper’s major claims, impact, and critique category — benchmarking infrastructure for the AI peer review wave.Notes & quotesPreprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.17.719279v1.full

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SAFI (Safe AI for IET)

SAFI (Safe AI for IET) is the IET’s content chatbot running on an internally hosted LLM — the notable part being what it isn’t: a third-party cloud model with the IET’s content passing through it. Presented by David…

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ScholarlyTrendSpotterGPT

Scholarly Trend Spotter is a custom GPT built by Laura Harvey, a commercial strategy and operations consultant with 15+ years in the scholarly space (laura-harvey.com), for spotting trends in scholarly publishing industry news. Publicly available on the GPT…

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Silverchair AI Lab

The Silverchair AI Lab is an interactive, user-friendly platform designed for publishers to experiment with various AI models, applications, and use cases. It serves as a space to deepen understanding of AI technologies and refine AI strategies within…

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