Research Solutions, a leading provider of AI-powered scientific research tools, has officially announced the commercial launch of its AI Rights add-on for Article Galaxy, which makes it possible for corporate researchers to compliantly use generative AI tools with scientific journal content at scale.
According to certain reports, the solution arrives on the bearing an ability to address a critical compliance gap which currently affects more than 76% of researchers who now use AI tools in their workflows, but at the same time, lack clear guidance on copyright permissions for scientific content analysis.
More on that would reveal how AI Rights add-on effectively transforms Research Solutions’ Article Galaxy platform into a comprehensive solution for AI rights verification and acquisition.
The idea here is to provide instant clarity on usage permissions and seamless access to acquire necessary rights. Complementing that would be an assortment of direct partnerships with major publishers, something which enables researchers to confidently analyze scientific literature with enterprise AI platforms like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude, while simultaneously maintaining full copyright compliance.
“Our customers have been clear: they need AI capabilities to accelerate their research, but they cannot risk non-compliance,” said Roy W. Olivier, CEO of Research Solutions. “This launch delivers on our commitment to eliminate friction in the research workflow while creating sustainable value for publishers. We’re solving a compliance problem while enabling a new era of AI-powered scientific research.”
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account how research teams confront several complex obstacles when attempting to integrate AI tools into their workflows. In essence, most publishers explicitly prohibit the use of their content in AI applications, yet no streamlined mechanism exists for acquiring necessary permissions.
Talk about Research Solutions’ response against that, we begin from the promise of comprehensive risk management. This translates to how users can manage all AI rights sources through a single interface, regardless of whether through open access licenses, Reproduction Rights Organization agreements (RROs), direct publisher relationships, or Article Galaxy marketplace acquisition.
Next up, there is a feature focused on instant rights verification, which allows users to immediately see AI usage permissions for any article, removing guesswork and compliance uncertainty.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in one-click rights acquisition. You see, missing permissions can be purchased directly through the Article Galaxy interface with transparent pricing from participating publishers.
Hold on, we still have a couple of bits left to unpack, considering we haven’t yet touched upon a component revolving around retroactive rights purchase. In essence, organizations can acquire AI rights for articles previously purchased so to enable immediate compliance for existing content libraries.
Rounding up highlights would be the solution’s capability to facilitate organization-wide licensing, as AI Rights acquired would apply across the entire organization so to eliminate per-use restrictions and ongoing compliance concerns.
“The combination of generative AI and scientific literature creates unprecedented opportunities for accelerating discovery, but only when researchers can access content legally and efficiently,” said Chris Bendall, VP of Product Strategy at Research Solutions. “We’ve built a solution that makes AI analysis of scientific content both legally compliant and operationally seamless—turning what was previously a compliance risk into a competitive advantage.”
