Silverchair has announced the launch of Dynamic Discovery, a powerful AI discovery tool that transforms how researchers find relevant scholarly content. The innovative solution connects users to better refined search results more quickly, all while enhancing the value of publishers’ brands and their content.
Building on the success of the recently launched Oxford Academic AI Discovery Assistant, Dynamic Discovery leverages advanced RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) frameworks to direct users to the most pertinent articles, books, and conference papers using natural language queries instead of relying on simple keywords. The functionality presents the most relevant sources along with contextual information about why each was selected as well as clear relevance and access indicators. Users may refine their queries through follow-up questions or be seamlessly redirected to the full-text content on the platform.
Dynamic Discovery offers significant benefits for both publishers and researchers. For publishers, it drives platform traffic, preserves access control, amplifies collection value by surfacing content that might otherwise be overlooked, enables cross-collection discovery, and provides valuable usage intelligence. Researchers benefit from intuitive discovery without specialized vocabulary, efficiency in identifying relevant sources, and contextual understanding of research questions, all on top of the modern platform functionality and user experience they expect.
The tool is fully responsive and integrates seamlessly with existing Silverchair-hosted platforms, maintaining user authentication states and preserving institutional access rights while reflecting each publisher’s unique branding.
“Dynamic Discovery represents a fundamental shift in how researchers engage with scholarly content,” said Will Schweitzer, Silverchair CEO. “By leveraging AI-powered discovery while ensuring all access occurs directly on publishers’ platforms, we’re simultaneously enhancing the researcher experience and strengthening the value proposition of our publishing partners’ content collections. This solution reflects Silverchair’s ongoing commitment to developing technology that both advances scholarship and supports the business objectives of our client community.”
Dynamic Discovery is the latest output of Silverchair’s AI Lab, which was designed to transparently test and pilot potential AI solutions with our clients. This investment in learning and collaborating is bearing fruit in 2025 with the delivery of several robust and thoroughly tested AI features and products throughout the year.
