Royal Society Publishing deepens partnership with Cassyni
Royal Society Publishing and Cassyni have renewed their multi-year partnership and rolled out Cassyni’s contextual video embed across Royal Society Publishing’s new Silverchair-hosted article pages.
Readers of journals including Royal Society Open Science, Proceedings B, and Journal of the Royal Society Interface can now watch author seminars and discover related talks directly from the article they are reading.
The Royal Society Publishing programme on Cassyni spans both journal-led series, including Royal Society Open Science and Interface, and topic-led series that cut across the journal portfolio, including Ecology & Evolution, Fluid Mechanics, and History of Science. Recordings are a mixture of live community keynote events and pre-recorded author seminars, giving readers a way into the research community around a topic as well as the paper in front of them.
Cassyni says the new embed is dynamic and can be configured on any Silverchair-hosted journal using Silverchair’s backend tooling, with no per-article configuration required – showing the most useful thing for the reader at any given moment: “When a video is available for the article, the embed plays it. When an upcoming talk is scheduled, the embed surfaces the RSVP. When neither applies, it shows the wider community around the journal – recent recordings, upcoming events, and routes into the series. Picture-in-picture lets the video follow readers as they scroll the article, so the author’s explanation runs alongside the paper rather than in a separate tab.”
Inside the embed, readers reach Cassyni’s AI features without leaving the article page: multilingual captions, searchable transcripts, slide-aware playback, and Ask the Seminar — Cassyni’s seminar-grounded Q&A. Every recording carries a Crossref DOI and is indexed in Dimensions, EndNote, and OpenAlex, so seminars are citable alongside the underlying paper.
Royal Society Publishing author seminars are free to watch for everyone, complementing Royal Society Publishing’s move to Subscribe to Open and the equitable open-access model now being applied across its eight subscription journals.
Ben Kaube, Co-Founder, Cassyni, said: “A paper is the formal record of a piece of research, but it is rarely the whole story. Putting the author’s seminar on the article page lets readers hear the scientist behind the work explain how they got there, in their own voice, at the moment the reader is most interested.”
Graham Anderson, Head of Sales and Marketing, Royal Society Publishing, said: ‘The article page is where our readers already are, so it is the right place for the author’s seminar to live. It gives readers a reason to come to the page and hear directly from the author — something an AI summary of the paper cannot do. The reader can then sign up to our Cassyni channel to hear about other seminars as they are released.”
Hannah Heckner Swain, VP, Strategic Partnerships, Silverchair, added: “It’s wonderful to reflect artifacts from other stages of the research process on our content pages to reflect the integrity of the scientific process behind the content on our platform and telling the story behind the research. We’re excited to be partnering with Cassyni to enable this functionality and I hope that other publishers on the platform will take advantage of this new opportunity for reader engagement.”