Authorship and publishing in the AI age
The course explores academic integrity in the age of AI, addressing ethical challenges, regulations, and best practices for PhD research. It covers copyright, Open Science, and publishing principles.
The common course will equip participants with tools for responsible authorship and transparent, collaborative scholarship.
In the first part of the course, we will discuss the fundamental values of academic integrity and examine how these are challenged by the rise of AI. We will cover various regulations for the use of AI in research, with a focus on writing PhD theses.
You will have the opportunity to share your own experiences with AI tools, and we will provide examples of good practices, highlighting both opportunities and limitations in the use of AI tools.
The second part of the course focuses on applying the reflections from day one to the practical work on a PhD thesis. The day begins with a brief overview of central copyright issues, offering a general perspective relevant for PhD candidates both in Norway and internationally.
This is followed by an introduction to Open Science practices, emphasising how you can make your articles and research data openly available under conditions that promote sharing, use, cooperation, and societal responsibility.
The day concludes with a lecture on publishing and academic authorship, presenting and discussing initiatives for good practice in publication, and tools that may be useful for establishing yourself as an academic author.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
• Understand academic integrity principles and AI-related ethical challenges.
• Know regulations for AI use, copyright, Open Science, and publishing standards.
Skills
• Apply AI tools responsibly in research and writing.
• Implement Open Science practices for sharing data and publications.
• Use strategies and tools for effective academic authorship
Competences
• Critically evaluate AI’s role in scholarly work.
• Ensure compliance with ethical and legal frameworks
• Promote transparency, collaboration, and responsible research practices
Reading list
PhD on Track is a national web resource for PhD candidates and early career researchers. The website aims to enable beginning researchers from all academic fields to easily access information on different aspects of the process towards a PhD degree.
Course leader
Michael Grote
Senior Academic Librarian
University of Bergen
Grote studied German literature and history at Bielefeld University, with a dissertation on the acoustic literature of Carlfriedrich Claus. He is a university lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages, UiB, and a senior academic librarian for Comparative Literature, Philosophy, German and East Asian Studies at the Arts and Humanities Library. His research interests are on experimental and avant-garde literature of the twentieth century, the history and theory of autobiographical writing in modernity, AI literacy in academic library research support.
Course lecturers
Ida Benedicte Juhasz
Bergen University Library
Kjersti Hasle Enerstvedt
Bergen University Library
Eli Heldaas Seland
Bergen University Library