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Policy for Book and Commissioned Content Editors
This policy aims to provide greater transparency and guidance to authors, editors and reviewers in
relation to generative Al and Al-assisted technologies. Elsevier will monitor ongoing
developments in this area closely and will adjust or refine the policy as appropriate. The following
guidance is specifically for editors.
All authors’ work must be treated as confidential. Editors should not upload authors’
material/manuscript or any part thereof into a generative Al tool as this may violate Elsevier's
confidentiality and proprietary rights and, where the material/manuscript contains personally
identifiable information, may breach data privacy rights.
This confidentiality requirement extends to all communication about the material/manuscript
including any reports or correspondence, as they may contain confidential information about the
material/manuscript, Elsevier, and/or the authors. For this reason, editors should not upload their
communications or any related material into an Al tool, even if itis just for the purpose of
improving language and readability
Elsevier abides by the highest standards of integrity in the editorial process which implies
responsibilities that can only be attributed to humans, Generative Al or Aleassisted technologies
should not be used by editors to assist in the evaluation of authors’ material/ manuscript as the
critical thinking and original assessment needed for this work is outside of the scope of this
technology and there is a risk that the technology will generate incorrect, incomplete or biased
conclusions about the manuscript. The editor is responsible and accountable for the editorial
process.
Elsevier's Al policy for book authors states that authors are allowed to use generative Al and Al-
assisted technologies in the writing process before submission, but only to improve the language
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and readability of their work and with the appropriate disclosure, as per our instructions in
Elsevier's Guide for Authors.
Please note that Elsevier owns identity protected Al-assisted technologies which conform to the
RELX Responsible Al Principles 7. These in-house or licensed technologies respect
confidentiality. Our programs are subject to rigorous evaluation of bias and are compliant with
data privacy and data security requirements.
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