AI and research ethics: policy links

Session 4 · 28 October 2026

Video lecture · Slides · Optional worksheet · Course materials

Official sources

• COPE: Authorship and AI tools
• Elsevier: Generative AI policies for journals

These sources were checked on 19 October 2026. The publisher example in the lecture is specific to Elsevier journals. Recheck the current official instructions of the journal you intend to submit to.

Questions to take to your own project

• What task did the tool perform, and what output did you retain?
• What evidence did you use to verify the output?
• Was sharing the input permitted under the relevant project and institutional requirements?
• What does the target journal require for that task and type of material?

The battery values, mock edits, and ethics scenarios in this lesson are synthetic teaching examples. They are not a published battery dataset or a benchmark of a named AI model. The video uses a disclosed stock AI voice.