Silverchair Wins Charlottesville Business Innovation Council Award

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, May 25, 2012 – Silverchair Holdings, Inc. (Silverchair) was honored with the Spotlight Award last night at the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council Awards Gala. A panel of judges with an expertise in advancing technology and innovation selected Silverchair for bringing positive attention to the region along with seven other organizations honored for advances in innovation they bring to the Charlottesville community.

This announcement is the latest in a string of awards for Silverchair since the launch of its natively semantic platform, SCM6. This includes the 2012 Governor’s Award for Science Innovation and Silverchair featured as a fast-growing job creator on the Governor’s website.

About Silverchair:
Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Inc. Magazine ranked as one of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 2011. This past January, Silverchair Information Systems was awarded the 2012 Governor’s Award for Science Innovation. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

Silverchair Announces Aggressive Strategic Growth Plan, Focuses Strategy and Resources Through Divestiture

Sale of Silverchair Learning Systems Empowers Company’s Intensive Expansion of its STM Platform and Product Development Business

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, May 22, 2012 – Silverchair Holdings, Inc. (Silverchair) today announced the sale of Silverchair Learning Systems (SLS), the leading provider of online learning and information solutions for the senior care industry, to Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses.  The transaction closed on May 4, 2012.

Proceeds of the divestiture will be used to fund growth opportunities for Silverchair’s principal business: Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair), which provides advanced semantic product development solutions to scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishers, professional societies, and the federal government.  Unprecedented market demand for Silverchair’s new platform offering, SCM6, has created an opportunity to invest significant additional executive and financial resources in its groundbreaking technology. The divestiture of SLS will enable Silverchair to calibrate its vision and resources by accelerating technology investments, maximizing market opportunities, and building market share in the STM information and knowledge management space. Information industry analyst Outsell’s recent report on STM publishing platforms identifies the launch of SCM6 as one of the reasons behind the “significantly accelerating innovation and change for the STM publishing platform.”

“Today’s transaction is part of our long-term strategic plan to focus on Silverchair’s core competency of developing innovative technology platforms for STM publishers – a market we have successfully served for nearly 20 years,” said Thane Kerner, CEO of Silverchair Holdings.  “This transaction will accelerate our development of the technologies that help make our publishing partners successful by both providing additional funding and by bringing a singular focus to our business.”

“We are deeply grateful for the great guidance and support we’ve received over the past 10 years as part of the Silverchair Holdings team,” said Mike Mutka, President and COO of Silverchair Learning Systems.  “This transaction is a win for everyone, because it allows Silverchair Information Systems to focus on their exciting new market opportunities, while connecting us with a partner that is eager to invest aggressively in growing the SLS business.  We couldn’t be more delighted to be a part of the team at Vista Equity Partners.”

Harris Williams & Co., a preeminent middle market investment bank focused on the advisory needs of clients worldwide, acted as the exclusive advisor to Silverchair in its sale of SLS.

About Silverchair

Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Inc. Magazine ranked Silverchair as one of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 2011.  This past January, Silverchair Information Systems was awarded the 2012 Governor’s Award for Science Innovation.  Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

About Silverchair Learning Systems

Silverchair Learning strives to be the superior source of education and information programs in the senior care industry. Our mission is to support the best care for seniors by providing comprehensive programs that improve their way of living. For further information please visit www.silverchairlearning.com.

The JAMA Network Debuts on Silverchair’s SCM6 Platform

(Chicago, IL/ Charlottesville, VA) May 14, 2012 – The American Medical Association (AMA) today introduced the JAMA Network (www.jamanetwork.com) on SCM6, the natively semantic online hosting platform from Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair). The JAMA Network brings together the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), along with the AMA’s nine Archives specialty journals and related resources, to create a new user-centered, semantically integrated digital portfolio.

“In creating the JAMA Network, our aspiration is to seamlessly integrate the wide array of knowledge we deliver into an intuitive, user-centric experience,” said Dr. Howard Bauchner, JAMA Editor in Chief. “Silverchair’s SCM6 technology allows us to create precise, dynamic relationships between articles, evidence, audio and video, teaching tools, and other highly relevant information resources. The JAMA Network on SCM6 is an environment that responds to each user’s needs with far more efficient knowledge discovery and presentation than has previously been possible.”

Features of the new JAMA Network include:

• User-centered design – Provides users with an intuitive interface and highlights key JAMA Network resources, including CME, Online First articles, and multimedia.
• Content in context – Surfaces additionally, highly relevant articles and other resources from across all the publications in the JAMA Network and beyond.
• Mobile optimization – The JAMA Network is optimized for reading on mobile devices.
• Semantic search – Provides better results by normalizing synonyms, alternate spellings, acronyms, and jargon and by connecting closely related concepts.
• Integrated e-commerce – New custom built JAMA Network store streamlines the purchase of subscriptions, CME, articles, and other resources.
• Integrated CME – Available directly on relevant articles as well as via a redeveloped CME section.
• Multimedia – Easy to locate multimedia landing page displayed across the JAMA Network combined with streaming videos viewable within the article environment.
• Semantic Collections – Users from all fields of medicine will find semantically generated topic collections that combine related content from across the Network.

“The JAMA Network grew out of our belief that the user – AMA members, non-member physicians around the world, medical students, other healthcare professionals, and patients and caregivers – should be at the center how we deliver information,” said Betsy Jones, JAMA’s Publisher. “We worked closely with Silverchair to develop a resource that would put the user first, using semantic technology to deliver dynamic content relationships, enable site personalization, and ultimately to put the right information in front of the right person at the right time in order to improve health outcomes.”

“Launching the JAMA Network on SCM6 is a galvanizing milestone for Silverchair,” said Silverchair CEO Thane Kerner. “Semantic technology is frankly a pretty wonky concept; it engenders a lot of theoretical discussion in the publishing community, and stimulates plenty of buzz-word compliant brochures. But the JAMA Network—which is built on the natively semantic SCM6—is a compelling real-world application of semantic theory. It’s not about getting data enriched or building triples. It’s about providing real value to users by leveraging those deep technologies to make information flow more precise and comprehensive.”

To explore the JAMA Network visit: www.jamanetwork.com

About the JAMA Network and the AMA:
Building on a tradition of editorial excellence, The JAMA Network brings JAMA, one of the most-cited and most recognized journals in the world, together with the 9 specialty Archives Journals to offer enhanced access to the research, reviews, and perspectives shaping the future of medicine. Through a variety of innovative tools, The JAMA Network provides the insights that matter most to medical research and practice.

The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest association of physicians in the United States. Since 1847, the AMA has had one mission: to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. Today, the core strategy used to carry out this mission is our concerted effort to help doctors help patients. We do this by uniting physicians nationwide to work on the most important professional and public health issues. Additional information is available at: www.ama-assn.org

About Silverchair Information Systems:
Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Inc. Magazine ranked Silverchair as one of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 2011. This past January, the company received Virginia’s 2012 Governor’s Award for Science Innovation. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

American Pharmacists Association announces all new JAPhA

(Arlington, VA/Charlottesville, VA) March 27, 2012—American Pharmacists Association (APhA) today launched the next generation of the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (JAPhA) on SCM6, the natively semantic online hosting platform from Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair).

“We are delighted to expand our relationship with Silverchair,” said APhA Senior Vice President, Karen Tracy. “After developing PharmacyLibrary with Silverchair we decided to bring JAPhA to the SCM6 platform. The new JAPhA further integrates our publications portfolio by using semantic enrichment to surface deep content relationships, populate topic collections, and providing our readers with time-saving tools and a better user experience.”

JAPhA is the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Pharmacists Association, providing information on pharmaceutical care, drug therapy, diseases and other health issues, trends in pharmacy practice and therapeutics, informed opinion, and original research. The transition to SCM6 brings a number of improvements to JAPhA and enables the APhA to optimize its information delivery for its audiences, from students to practicing pharmacists.

“We’re very excited to kick off Silverchair’s busy schedule of spring releases with the launch of JAPhA,” said Thane Kerner, Silverchair CEO. “JAPhA.org is an ideal complement to the APhA’s suite of learning tools which includes PharmacyLibrary. We are at our best when collaborating with an organization dedicated to meeting the needs of its diverse audience, and pleased that our technology provides the agile product development environment required for their continued innovation.”

To view the redesigned site and new products firsthand, visit www.JAPhA.org

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About American Pharmacists Association:

APhA was the first-established national professional society of pharmacists, having been founded in 1852 as the American Pharmaceutical Association. It remains the largest association of pharmacists in the United States, boasting more than 60,000 practicing pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, student pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and others interested in advancing the profession.

About Silverchair:

Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

AccessPediatrics Wins 2011 PROSE Award

February 2, 2012 (Washington, DC) – AccessPediatrics (www.accesspediatrics.com/), a McGraw-Hill product developed by Silverchair Information Systems, was awarded the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Best eProduct in Biological & Life Sciences. The award was announced today by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP).

McGraw-Hill’s AccessPediatrics (http://www.accesspediatrics.com), launched on SCM, Silverchair’s web content delivery platform, in May 2011. This innovative online resource for pediatrics residents, students, and educators provides searchable, full-text access to 13 leading McGraw-Hill pediatric medicine textbooks, including Rudolph’s Pediatrics and Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics; curricular management tracking and testing tools; more than 40 animations detailing pediatric procedures and exam walkthroughs, from descriptions of anatomy to the details of pathophysiology; Q&A that helps prepare for the United States Medical Licensing Examination as well as the pediatrics specialty board exam; practical skill-building tools; and thousands of images.

Using Silverchair’s renowned semantic architecture, AccessPediatrics employs a customized, evidenced-based user interface design and a powerful semantic search, brings together a diverse array of content assets in one cohesive and compelling information resource, as now recognized by the PROSE awards.

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About Silverchair: Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

Silverchair Presented Governor’s Award for Science Innovation

(Charlottesville, VA) January 18, 2012- Silverchair Information Systems will be awarded the 2012 Governor’s Award for Science Innovation tomorrow at the Science Museum of Virginia’s General Assembly Reception on Thursday, Jan. 19, at 6 p.m.

The 2011 winner, Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc, will pass the honor to Silverchair Information Systems tomorrow evening as Governor Bob McDonnell and Science Museum of Virginia Chief Wonder Officer, Richard C. Conti present the award to Silverchair Chief Executive Officer, Thane Kerner. Three scientists will also be honored throughout the evening with Virginia’s 2012 Outstanding Scientists Award.

The Governor’s Award for Science Innovation is designed to recognize an emerging company or organization that has made a significant impact in the areas of science, technology, engineering or mathematics. The award celebrates diversity by recognizing a company or organization that inspires innovation and reinforces the global competitiveness of Virginia for businesses that have fewer than 250 employees with focus in the areas mentioned above.
“We have been working vigorously to help our publisher clients embrace product development and innovation, and so it is a great honor for Silverchair to also be acknowledged for internal innovation,” said Silverchair CEO, Thane Kerner.

Silverchair Information Systems, founded in 1993 began as a small two person office that has grown to over 150 employees dedicated to delivering advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. In June 2011, Silverchair launched SCM6, the most substantial upgrade to its SCM web product development platform in company history. With that announcement, eight leading scientific societies simultaneously announced plans to migrate their digital publishing operations to, and develop new product lines on the new platform. Because SCM6 was built using a natively semantic architecture, these publishers have the capability to rapidly produce new product and features, embrace best-of-breed navigation, and receive support for myriad new business models to optimize their content portfolios. Since the release of SCM6, three additional STM publishers have decided to join the SCM6 platform.

With headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia, Silverchair was recently featured as a fast-growing Job Creator on the Governor’s website as the company continues to expand and bring innovation to the STM & scholarly publishing market.

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ASME Chooses Silverchair Platform for the ASME Digital Library

(New York, NY/Charlottesville, VA) December 1, 2011- ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) announced today that it will partner with Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) to host the ASME Digital Library on its SCM6 platform.

The ASME Digital Library is the most extensive resource on mechanical engineering, including more than 158,000 technical papers in 25 journals and 200 conference proceedings spanning from 1970 to the present and more than 130 ASME Press electronic books. ASME publishes approximately 9,000 new papers and 20 new books in the ASME Digital Library annually.

“We chose to move the ASME Digital Library to Silverchair’s SCM6 platform because of its ability to fully integrate all of our content types—journals, proceedings, and ebooks—offering a sophisticated array of semantic technology,” said Philip DiVietro, managing director of ASME Publishing and Unit Support. “Silverchair is the emerging leader in STM publishing technology. We are excited about combining their unique amalgam of technology and product development experience with our content expertise and knowledge of the mechanical engineering field, to develop truly innovative new products and product enhancements to better support the information needs of our diverse members and other stakeholders.”
SCM6 is the latest release of Silverchair’s natively semantic product development and hosting platform. SCM6 supports scientific, technical, and medical (STM) and scholarly publishers, societies, and other organizations to deliver the full array of content formats, functionality, and personalized user experience required by today’s rapidly changing information marketplace.

“We are enthusiastic to be collaborating with ASME, the leader in mechanical engineering, and an organization with a global impact that is advancing technical knowledge across a diverse array of fields, including bioengineering, energy, aerospace, transportation, environmental engineering, construction, and manufacturing,” said Thane Kerner, Silverchair CEO. “The migration of the ASME Digital Library to Silverchair’s SCM6 corresponds with a significant extension of our semantic infrastructure. We have long been recognized for our deep expertise in the life sciences, but we have expanded our semantic systems to support both the physical sciences and engineering. ASME’s forward-thinking, integrated approach to publishing provides the perfect partner for the next step in our semantic roadmap.”

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About ASME: Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is the premier professional membership organization for more than 120,000 mechanical engineers and associated members worldwide. ASME also conducts one of the world’s largest technical publishing operations, offering thousands of titles including some of the profession’s most prestigious journals, conference proceedings, and ASME Press books. Additional information is available at www.asme.org
About Silverchair: Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

Silverchair Sites Developed for McGraw-Hill and AHRQ Win Web Health Awards

(Charlottesville, VA) December 2, 2011- Two products developed by Silverchair Information Systems–AccessPediatrics & the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange– were honored at the 13th edition of the Web Health Awards, a twice-a-year competition honoring the best digital health resources and high-quality electronic health information.

McGraw-Hill’s AccessPediatrics (http://www.accesspediatrics.com), launched on Silverchair’s web content delivery platform in May 2011, won the Web Health Silver Award for Medical Education. This innovative online resource for pediatrics residents, students, and educators provides searchable, full-text access to 13 leading McGraw-Hill pediatric medicine textbooks, including Rudolph’s Pediatrics, 22e and Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics, 20e; curricular management tracking and testing tools; more than 40 animations detailing pediatric procedures and exam walkthroughs, from descriptions of anatomy to the details of pathophysiology; Q&A for the Pediatric Board Exam; practical skill-building tools; and thousands of images.

The AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange (http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov), developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and launched on Silverchair’s platform in June 2008, received a Merit Web Health Award for Directory / Ratings / Guides. The AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange offers busy health professionals and researchers a variety of opportunities to share, learn about, and ultimately adopt evidence-based innovations and tools suitable for a range of health care settings and populations.

Both sites utilize Silverchair’s renowned semantic architecture to deliver highly relevant content to healthcare professionals. They employ a customized, evidenced-based user interface design and a powerful semantic search that make them industry leaders for delivering healthcare resources, as now recognized by the Web Health Awards.

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About Silverchair: Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.silverchair.com.

American Psychiatric Association Announces All New PsychiatryOnline

(Arlington, VA/Charlottesville, VA) October 31, 2011—American Psychiatric Publishing, a division of American Psychiatric Association (APA) today launched the next generation of PsychiatryOnline, the APA’s integrated digital product suite, on SCM6—the natively semantic platform released in June this year by Silverchair Information Systems. The new PsychiatryOnline uses the SCM6 architecture to create a fully integrated experience across the APA’s broad range of leading psychiatry titles—APP journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric News, the DSM library, textbooks, practice guidelines, CME, and other key resources.

“We have learned a great deal in the six years since we launched the original version of PsychiatryOnline,” said APA Publisher Rebecca Rinehart. “The new PsychiatryOnline reflects this knowledge, bringing together all of the APA’s key resources in one place, leveraging semantic enrichment to surface deep content relationships and populate topic collections and providing our readers with time-saving tools and innovative products.”
The new PsychiatryOnline brings the APA’s resources together in a unified digital suite, with integrated search and browse functionality along cross-platform topic collections . The DSM Library, Psychiatric News and each individual journal will retain its own branded website with title-specific search and browse so that APA members and other users can focus on the content of most importance to them. Journal transitioning to the new platform include:

• The American Journal of Psychiatry
• Psychiatric Services
• The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
• Academic Psychiatry
• FOCUS, The Journal of Lifelong Learning
• Plus, Psychiatric News

The SCM6 platform also enables the APP to optimize its information delivery for general and subspecialty psychiatrists, providing a intuitive user interface and content design that supports an variety of content types including textbooks, reference works, journals, guidelines, CME, patient education, and news. Additionally, users will find psychiatry-tailored topic collections that surface related content from across the array of content on PsychatryOnline.

“Over the past six years, American Psychiatric Publishing and Silverchair have collaborated to realize our shared vision for a fully integrated content portfolio spanning all of the APA’s professional content,” said Thane Kerner, Silverchair CEO. “By integrating APA’s journals and Psychiatric News, the new PsychiatryOnline makes a dramatic leap toward complete portfolio integration and product innovation, enabled by a semantic architecture.”

Enhanced features of the new PsychiatryOnline include:
• Content semantically enriched at deep levels of granularity enables every page as a content discovery dashboard, surfacing topically and functionally related content into user workflows
• A new, semantically-optimized search engine delivers more precise results, and rapid faceting to support retrieval efficiency
• Psychiatry Online delivers a new interface optimized for mobile devices, and provides seamless access to institutional users even when users roam far from the institution’s network.
To view the redesigned site and new products firsthand, visit www.psychiatryonline.org.

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About American Psychiatric Publishing:

American Psychiatric Publishing (APP), a Division of American Psychiatric Association is the world’s premier publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health and behavioral science. We offer authoritative, up-to-date and affordable information geared toward psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students and the general public.

About Silverchair:

Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at edit.silverchair.com.

Tim O’Reilly to Present Keynote at Silverchair Strategies 2011

(Charlottesville, VA) September 14, 2011—Silverchair Information Systems is pleased to announce that Tim O’Reilly, Founder & CEO of O’Reilly Media, will be presenting the keynote at Silverchair Strategies 2011.

“Tim is a world-renowned speaker and someone who has been thinking deeply at the intersection of publishing and technology for a long time. We are thrilled he has agreed to share his perspective and insight with our clients, partners and other industry stakeholders,” said Silverchair Executive Vice President, Michael Clarke. “Silverchair has been participating at O’Reilly conferences for years and we are delighted to bring a piece of that experience to Silverchair Strategies 2011.”

As the CEO of a dynamic and successful technical publisher and a leading technologist, O’Reilly is the ideal keynote speaker for Silverchair Strategies 2011, which is organized around the themes of content integration, personalization, and product development in the science, technical, and medical (STM) and scholarly information space. The majority of the conference will be organized around a series of case studies, workshops, conversational panels, and provocative presentations—including O’Reilly’s keynote.

According to Oreilly.com, “O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future.” Beyond the success of O’Reilly Media, Tim is widely considered a visionary and trend spotter and is notable for having popularized the term “Web 2.0” in the 2005 essay, “What is Web 2.0.”

Mr. O’Reilly’s presentation will take place on Friday, October 28th at the Chicago Ritz-Carlton. Those interested in requesting an invitation to the conference should visit http://strategies.silverchair.com/ for more information.

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About Silverchair: Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is available at http://www.silverchair.com.