International Journal of Applied and Behavioral Scinece

International Journal of Applied and Behavioral Sciences (IJABS)

About the Journal

The International Journal of Applied and Behavioral Sciences (IJABS) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the dissemination of cutting-edge research in applied and behavioral sciences.

Aims and Scope:

International Journal of Applied and Behavioral Sciences (IJABS) is an international scholarly/ academic journal, peer-reviewed/ refereed journal for faculty and research scholars. The journal is cross-disciplinary and serves as a forum for the exchange of the ideas and information related to the development of education, physical sciences, behavioral sciences, geography, home science, environmental sciences, biological sciences, etc., for the welfare of community. Articles focus upon concepts, practices and research in multiple disciplines. The journal invites articles in English language only. All articles undergo initial editor screening, peer review and review by the editorial board. Articles/ manuscripts submitted by the authors with author declaration and copy rights to publish are the property of the University, the journal is open access journal published by School of Applied and Behavioral Sciences, NIILM University Kaithal Haryana India.

Readers of the Journal:

The journal is open for all readers including students, research scholars, faculty members, and researchers, interested in the disciplines published by the Journal.

Open Access Statement:

International Journal of Applied and Behavioral Sciences is an open access journal which means the content is freely available without any charges to the users or institutions for the welfare of education fraternity and society. Researchers/ users are allowed to download, copy, print, search, or links to the full text articles, etc. for the lawful purpose.

Publication Fee:

The journal is published by School of Applied and Behavioral Sciences, NIILM University Kaithal Haryana. The journal doesn’t charge any article processing fee or author fee or publication fee.

Copyright and License:Intellectual Property

Privacy Statement

The journal respects the intellectual property rights of authors and the confidential information shared by the authors with the journal is used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal and will not be made available to any other party.

Copyright

In order to publish and disseminate research articles, we need certain publishing rights from authors, which are determined by a publishing agreement/ author declaration between the author and the Journal.

Authors grant declaration and consent, a copyright, to publish the article in International Journal of Applied and Behavioral Sciences (IJABS) and identify itself as the original publisher. Copyright to any open access article in the journal is retained by the author(s) and the publisher only. Authors retain following rights:

Retain patent and trademark rights, rights to use their research data freely without any restriction, Receive proper attribution and credit for their published work, Re-use their own material in new works without permission, Use and share their works for scholarly purposes (with full acknowledgement of the original article), Publicly share the preprint on any website or repository at any time, Publicly share the accepted manuscript on non-commercial sites, Publicly share the final published article.

License

The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles. The journal chooses the licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes only. All readers are free to read and use the article, as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

Author Declaration/ Author Consent/ License Agreement

In submitting an article to the journal, I certify that:

  1. 1. I am authorized by my co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
  2. 2. I warrant, on behalf of myself and my co-authors, that:
    •  the article is original, has not been formally published in any other journal, is not under consideration by any other journal and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third-party rights;
    •  I am/we are the sole author(s) of the article and have full authority to enter into this agreement and in granting rights to IJABS are not in breach of any other obligation;
    •  the article contains nothing that is unlawful, libelous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy;
    •  I/we have taken due care to ensure the integrity of the article. To my/our – and currently accepted scientific – knowledge all statements contained in it purporting to be facts are true and any formula or instruction contained in the article will not, if followed accurately, cause any injury, illness or damage to the user.
    •  If I am using any personal details or images of patients, research subjects or other individuals, I have obtained all consents required by applicable law and complied with the publisher policies relating to the use of such images or personal information.
    • 3. I, and all co-authors, agree that the article, if editorially accepted for publication, shall be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.
    • 4. I have the consent of each author (co-authors) to transfer and assign any and all right, title, and interest, including copyright of the article referenced above. I hereby assign and transfer to the Editor International Journal of Applied and Behavioral Sciences (IJABS) copyright and all rights under it.

Explanatory Notes:The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 provides the following summary (where ‘you’ equals ‘the user’):

You are free to:

  1. Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  2. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, but not commercially.
  3. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms

Under the following terms:

  1. Attribution— you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  2. No additional restrictions—you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Manuscript Deposition, and Digital Preservation

IJABS automatically deposits open access articles in institutional repository. Authors publishing in the Journal are encouraged to add the final published PDF in their ORCID, ResearchGate, Academia, SSRN or other research identifiers, or on any suitable research profilers/ identifiers on publication, however to protect the integrity and authenticity of the scientific record, authors will add published content link from the journal website to the research identifier/ profiler website. The university ensures that publications are preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. IJABS endeavours to ensure that our content remains accessible and usable to our readers, regardless of media failure and technological change. So, the University deposits all contents on the institutional repository.