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Will Schweitzer

CEO, Silverchair
As Silverchair’s CEO, Will works with the management team to lead Silverchair. He oversees our business development, customer success, delivery, finance, product, people operations, and technology teams, making sure our products, services, and growth strategies meet the needs of our growing community. He has a deep knowledge of scholarly publishing, having worked in the industry for over 18 years in product and publisher roles for leading commercial and society houses including, most recently, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Science Magazine), SAGE Publications, the American Psychological Association, and Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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Platform Strategies

Are You Thinking Enough About Your Platform Data?

47:52
Scholarly publishers are sitting on a wealth of content and user data. Relative to some analytics and information markets, our data is laying fallow. How should we be thinking about our data and creating data partnerships or products? We’ll cover theory to practice in a moderated discussion with industry experts.
Platform Strategies

Digital Strategy, Platform Technology, and Open Access. Thoughts as You Adapt Your Publishing Business.

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Every publisher is grappling with transformative deals, Plan S, and what surely is a more open future. Join Alison Mudditt, CEO, PLOS, and Will Schweitzer, Silverchair’s SVP for Product Management and former Director of Product for the Science family of journals, as they share their perspective on the infrastructure, technology, strategies, and relationships needed to adapt to open access market changes successfully.
Silverchair Webinars

Opening Content for COVID_July 1, 2020

57:54
To enable researchers, students, and faculty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many publishers removed paywalls from their content. As those free access periods are set to expire, how are publishers handling the reinstitution of paywalls, both logistically and from a messaging standpoint? How has this period changed customer relationships and how will it change future sales approaches? And how has the race to open content affected intellectual property protections and guarding against cyber criminals like SciHub? A panel of publishers and service partners who are working through these challenges share their approaches.
Platform Strategies

Platform Strategies 2023: AI In Scholarly Publishing Panel Discussion

48:21
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 how content is discovered, used, and licensed. This panel discussed actual and potential applications of the technology.
Platform Strategies

Platform Strategies 2023: Stable but Unsustainable: Leadership Roundtable

21:45
What are the primary challenges and concerns of leaders for a scholarly publishing organization in the current era? What issues consume the majority of that executive’s attention? How do these leaders manage increasing ecosystem complexity? These big questions underlie many of our organizations’ most important business strategy and technology decisions. This roundtable discussion gathered industry leaders to discuss how they are grappling with these issues. (Note: the audio contains a clicking sound from mic interference)
Platform Strategies

Putting a Price on It: The Changing Nature of Society Publishing

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Platform Strategies

What Now? Making the most of pandemic pilots and pivots

58:48