NISO Plus 2026 Global/Online

Agentic AI offers new opportunities for publishers licensing content and for researchers engaged in text or data mining across a collection or corpus. Access to that content, however, also poses challenges for publishers and platforms who want to allow access to those entitled to it, whether through a subscription or license, while keeping out unwanted agents. Agentic AI also complicates how we measure the value and impact of scholarly content. What is the best approach to managing AI access to content? And how should we take AI activity into account when measuring usage?