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title: AI Research Tools Can Now Quote Princeton University Press Books Without Training on Them
description: Princeton University Press has licensed its catalog to AI research tools that can quote it but not train on it. What that means for authors and their contracts.
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-08-03T14:25:24.273Z
updated: 2026-08-03T14:25:24.282Z
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An author whose book sits in the Princeton University Press catalog can now expect one particular thing to happen to it inside an AI system. A research tool can search the book, pull a passage and hand it back to a reader with a citation. What the license does not allow is the book being used to train a model. The Press has agreed an arrangement that keeps those two uses apart, and the Press, not the AI company at the other end, decides where the line falls.

## The License Covers Searching and Quoting, and Stops Before Training

Princeton University Press has partnered with Cashmere, a platform that connects publishers with AI companies, to make its catalog available to AI research tools under retrieval augmented generation licensing. An AI application can look a passage up and quote it, the way a research assistant pulls a citation off a library shelf, without that passage becoming part of the data a model is trained on. Cashmere describes its approach as no-LLM-training. The Press decides which parts of the catalog are licensed and on what terms, and existing book contracts and the copyrights underneath them stay intact. The catalog spans more than a century of publishing across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

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