Copyright and License
JBTM uses Creative Commons licensing to maximize the reach and impact of your behavioral therapy and mental health research.
Open Access Licensing
The Journal of Behavior Therapy and Mental Health publishes all articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This open access license ensures that your behavioral therapy research is freely available to readers worldwide while protecting your rights as an author and ensuring proper attribution.
Open access licensing removes barriers to knowledge dissemination, enabling mental health clinicians, researchers, students, and policymakers to access the latest evidence without subscription costs. This approach maximizes the societal impact of your research and increases citation potential across the global psychological sciences community.
Under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, readers and users may freely share and adapt your behavioral therapy research with proper attribution.
Permitted Uses
- Share and redistribute in any medium or format
- Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the work
- Use for commercial or non-commercial purposes
- No additional restrictions may be applied by users
Attribution Requirements
- Credit authors and cite original publication
- Provide link to the Creative Commons license
- Indicate if modifications were made
- Include DOI or link to original article
JBTM authors retain full copyright of their published work. By submitting to JBTM, authors grant the journal a license to publish while maintaining their own rights to their behavioral therapy research.
- Authors retain copyright ownership of their mental health research
- Authors may share published versions on personal websites and institutional repositories
- Authors may reuse figures and content in future publications with citation
- Authors may deposit manuscripts in repositories to meet funder requirements
- Authors may present published research at conferences without permission
Third-Party Content
Authors must obtain permission for any third-party content included in their manuscripts, such as figures, tables, or extended quotations from other sources. Permission must be obtained before submission. Authors should clearly indicate which elements require separate permission in their cover letter when submitting to JBTM.
JBTM commits to maintaining permanent access to published articles, ensuring DOI functionality, and preserving the scholarly record. We do not impose embargoes or access restrictions after publication. All behavioral therapy research is immediately available upon publication.
Users reusing JBTM content must provide appropriate citation including authors, article title, journal name, volume, issue, page numbers or article number, and DOI. For adapted or derivative works, users should indicate modifications made to the original behavioral therapy research while crediting the original source.
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Share your behavioral therapy research freely with the global mental health community through CC BY licensing.
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