Cashmere × IOP Publishing (IOPP)
IOP Publishing partnered with Cashmere to license its portfolio of physics-focused books and journals for use in AI applications. The agreement uses Cashmere's infrastructure to make content available for AI inference, while protecting it from being used for large language model training. The deal allows IOPP to monitor content access and gather insights on how research is used by AI tools.
The asset
The publisher's portfolio of book and journal research content, primarily in the physical sciences.
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- scientific publishing
- Modalities
- text
What it means if you hold data
This partnership with a society publisher for a specific scientific domain (physics) highlights the demand for high-quality, specialized data for vertical AI. It also underscores the 'license for inference, protect from training' model being adopted by publishers to engage with the AI economy.