Cashmere and American Physical Society Partner to Bring AI Discovery of Physics Research to Libraries and Industry

Partnership brings agentic AI discovery of American Physical Society’s physics research to library and industry customers, on terms the publisher controls.

SALT LAKE CITY, UT, UNITED STATES, October 26, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Cashmere, the infrastructure platform that enables premium content publishers to safely monetize their catalogues for AI inference use cases, and the American Physical Society (APS), the professional society representing more than 50,000 physicists worldwide, today announced a partnership to bring APS’s physics research to agentic AI applications for discovery and inference – on terms APS defines and controls.

Founded in 1899, APS is one of the world’s leading professional societies for physics, publishing 19 journals – including Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, and Reviews of Modern Physics – that form a trusted, rigorously peer-reviewed record of physics research. Through this partnership, that body of research will be made discoverable to the AI agents that academic librarians, researchers, and industry R&D teams increasingly rely on to search, query, and synthesize scientific literature, while ensuring the underlying content is never used to train large language models.

As agentic AI tools take on a growing role in how academic libraries and industry research teams find and work with scientific literature, publishers face a choice: let their content be accessed on AI platforms’ terms, or set the terms themselves. Cashmere’s infrastructure gives APS the latter – a way to license its physics catalogue for agentic discovery and inference while retaining full control over which content is made available, to which platforms, and under what terms, with the underlying research held within Cashmere’s air-gapped, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR-compliant infrastructure.

The partnership also gives APS and its contributing physicists visibility into how their research is being discovered and used by AI agents acting on behalf of libraries, institutions, and industry customers. Cashmere’s business intelligence layer provides usage insight that helps APS understand demand for its journals in an AI-driven research landscape, informing the Society’s publishing strategy and supporting the long-term sustainability of physics publishing.

“Academic libraries and industry research teams are increasingly turning to AI agents to find and work with scientific literature, and APS’s physics catalogue is exactly the kind of rigorously reviewed, authoritative content those agents should be drawing on. This partnership gives APS a way to make its research discoverable to agentic AI on its own terms – licensed, tracked, and never exposed to LLM training — so the Society and its physicists stay in control as this new discovery channel grows.” – Jonathan Munk, CEO of Cashmere

” APS has spent over a century building a trusted record of physics research, and as agentic AI becomes a more common way for libraries, researchers, and industry to discover and engage with that research, we want to make sure it happens on our terms. Partnering with Cashmere gives us the infrastructure to extend discovery of our journals into agentic AI applications responsibly, with the control and visibility our authors, institutional subscribers, and industry partners expect from us.” — Rachel Burley, Chief Publications Officer, American Physical Society

The partnership reflects a broader shift among scientific and academic publishers toward licensing models that keep copyright holders in control as agentic AI becomes an increasingly common gateway to research, for both academic and industry users. By combining Cashmere’s compliance infrastructure and usage insight with APS’s standing as a trusted authority in physics, the two organizations aim to set a model for how scholarly societies can extend their research into agentic AI discovery safely and on their own terms.

About Cashmere
Human progress depends on authoritative, verified knowledge. Cashmere exists to ensure the creators of the most important human knowledge are incentivized, protected and compensated. Cashmere is an infrastructure platform that connects premium content publishers with AI companies for compliant, controlled inference and agentic discovery use, enabling publishers to monetize their catalogues safely, with control and at scale, without the risk of their content being used for LLM training. Publisher content is held within Cashmere’s air-gapped infrastructure, which is SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR compliant, and publishers receive detailed business intelligence into how their content is used in AI. Learn more at cashmere.io.

About APS
The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society. APS represents more than 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and around the world. Learn more at aps.org.

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