‘One Nation One Subscription’ (ONOS) initiative

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‘One Nation One Subscription’ (ONOS) initiative 

Why in the news?

• The Union Cabinet on Monday, November 25, 2024, approved the ‘One Nation One Subscription’ (ONOS) initiative 

Key points:

• All higher education institutions under central or State governments and R&D institutions of the central government can avail the benefits of the initiative through a national subscription.
• This common platform will host 13,000 journals published by 30 international publishers including Elsevier Science Direct (including Lancet), Springer Nature, Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Taylor & Francis, IEEE, Sage Publishing, American Chemical Society, and American Mathematical Society, among others.
•  All institutions will only need to register on the platform to access these journals. INFLIBNET has been designated as the implementing agency for this initiative. 
• The central government negotiated one subscription price for each of the 30 different publishers and approved Rs 6,000 crore for three calendar years — 2025, 2026 and 2027.

Objectives:

• Aiming to centralise journal subscriptions for nearly 6,300 government-run institutions, ONOS seeks to provide equitable access to 13,000 scholarly journals under a single platform.
• Through the ONOS scheme, theCentre aims to consolidate the disaggregated approach to journal access for all government HEIs.
•  ONOS will enable state and central government HEIs to access thousands of journals on one platform,which will be active from January 1, 2025.
• It will help in centralised access to research articles and journal publication for government higher education institutions and research and development (R&D) laboratories of the central government.