Academic publisher Wiley has partnered with AI company Perplexity to integrate the publisher’s content into Perplexity’s generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) search capabilities for educators and students. The new partnership is Perplexity’s first with an education company. Wiley said the partnership will “create new pathways for educational institutions to interact with trusted scholarly resources through AI search”.
College students, educators and researchers at institutions that subscribe to Perplexity’s Enterprise Pro will be able to access purchased Wiley educational collections and resources in areas including nursing, business and engineering.
According to the publisher, this includes streamlined access to specialised Wiley collections, adding that students will also “gain tools for responsible AI usage”. Wiley added this reinforces Wiley’s commitment to supporting academic integrity. Among the pilot users of this new partnership are Texas A&M and Texas State University in the US, with several universities in the UK poised to start soon.
Perplexity provides live web access and Wiley collections content with sourced citation, while students, educators and researchers can get answers sourced across Wiley and web sources.
Josh Jarrett, Wiley’s senior vice-president of AI growth, said: “Wiley saw the potentially huge benefits of AI early on and chose to fully invest in it, and we’ve been working with our partners to help shape its future ever since. As AI adoption accelerates across research and learning environments, this partnership – between a trusted publisher and an AI innovator – provides a solution for incorporating verified, expert content within these tools. We’re meeting researchers and students where they are with resources they can trust.”
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