Cashmere has announced a partnership with De Gruyter Brill to make the publisher’s English‑language catalogue of books and journals available to AI platforms for inference use cases. The agreement enables De Gruyter Brill to license its content through Cashmere’s secure infrastructure, ensuring that material is accessible for AI applications without being used to train large language models.
De Gruyter Brill publishes more than 3,500 books and 800 journals annually across the humanities, social sciences, and STEM disciplines. The catalogue reflects the combined legacy of De Gruyter, founded in 1749, and Brill, founded in 1683, which merged in 2024.
Cashmere’s infrastructure is designed for premium content publishers seeking to participate in the AI economy while maintaining control of their intellectual property. Content is stored within a compliant, air‑gapped system and licensed strictly for inference. This arrangement allows De Gruyter Brill to determine which content is licensed, under what terms, and to whom, while safeguarding author copyrights and citation practices.
The partnership also provides De Gruyter Brill and its authors with access to Cashmere’s analytics layer, offering insight into how content is discovered and used across AI platforms. These insights are intended to inform publishing decisions and support the sustainability of scholarly content creation in an AI‑driven research environment.
The agreement reflects a broader trend among academic publishers toward licensing models that prioritize copyright protection and controlled participation in AI ecosystems. Cashmere and De Gruyter Brill intend for the partnership to serve as a model for how scholarly content can be integrated into AI platforms safely and sustainably.
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