Scientific publishers connect their books to artificial intelligence Cambridge University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press and Princeton University Press, along with technology company Kashmir, have announced Meridian, a single gateway between academic publishing and AI assistants.
The project will allow you to use authorized books and articles when preparing answers, while maintaining links to the authors and primary sources. What is important to know The connection is built on MCP - a standard that allows AI to access external sources. Meridian finds relevant scientific works and transfers them to the assistant along with bibliographic data and pages. The researcher opens the full text through access to his library. According to the terms of the project, the received texts cannot be used for training and further training of models, resold or transferred to other companies. Publishers retain control over their participation in the catalog and can withdraw works. Connection to the catalog begins in November, a closed pilot for individual libraries and universities is planned for this fall. In the future, Meridian must become an independent non-profit organization; Initially, the infrastructure is provided by Kashmir. The cost has not yet been determined. The FAQ of the project explicitly states: We will discuss whether it will be necessary to pay separately for the use of content when creating artificial intelligence responses. Subscription to the library does not yet mean that all additional terms have already been agreed upon. For legal research, this is an opportunity to connect academic monographs and articles with verifiable references to artificial intelligence. However, the quality of the sources and the quality of their interpretation raise questions. Stanford law professor Daniel Ho has previously explained that searching real documents significantly improves legal AI systems, but does not completely eliminate hallucinations. Therefore, the presence of a real book and the correct page still requires checking if they confirm the assistant's conclusion.