International Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences is a free-of-charge open access journal. The journal does not charge authors, institutions, or any other parties any fees for submission, peer review, editing, acceptance, publication, or article access. There are no Article Processing Charges (APCs), submission fees, page charges, color charges, or any other publication-related fees, and readers can access all content free of charge.
Funding. The journal is published by the Behavioral Sciences Research Center of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), and all operating and publication costs are fully covered by the university.
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