Govt launches ONOS to provide seamless access to digital knowledge resources

The Government has launched the “One Nation, One Subscription” scheme started yesterday. This initiative aims to provide seamless access to a wide range of digital knowledge resources, including research papers, journals, and academic content, under a single subscription platform. 

 

The scheme is expected to benefit students, researchers, and institutions across the country by eliminating multiple subscription barriers and ensuring equitable access to knowledge.

 

Over 1.8 crore students from Government funded higher education institutions, including universities and IITs, will have access to research papers, published in top journals across the world. 

  

More than, 13 thousand 400 international journals covering science, technology, engineering, medicine, mathematics, management,



social sciences and humanities are being made available to researchers under the first phase of the initiative.  

  

The Principal Scientific Adviser Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood said, in the subsequent phases of ONOS, expansion of access to private higher educational institutions and ultimately to all individuals in the country who need such access can be taken up. 

 

The ONOS scheme with a budget of six thousand crore rupees for a period of three years is a centrally negotiated and centrally funded National Consortium for electronic journal subscriptions. 

 

It will also provide central funding support of 150 crore rupees per year for beneficiary authors to publish in selected good-quality Open Access journals.