Cabinet approves One Nation One Subscription for top research journals; nearly 1.8 crore to benefit

NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), a new central-sector scheme for providing nation-wide access to scholarly research articles and journal publications. Students and faculty in more than 6,300 government higher educational institutions (HEIs) and central government R&D institutions will be able to access the journals.

“The National Education Policy (NEP 2020) has identified research as a corequisite for outstanding education and development in our country. The establishment of Anusandhan National Research Foundation by the Government of India was a step in this direction,” the Cabinet said in a statement. A total of almost Rs 6,000 crore has been allocated for the initiative for 3 calendar years, 2025, 2026, and 2027 as a new central sector scheme.

The initiative will benefit nearly 1.8 crore students, faculty, researchers and scientists of all disciplines. The top quality journals will also be accessible to tier 2 and tier 3 cities with an objective to encourage core as well as interdisciplinary research in the country.

“A total of 30 major international journal publishers have been included in One Nation One Subscription. All of the nearly 13,000 e-journals published by these publishers will now be accessible to more than 6,300 government Higher Education Institutions and central government R&D institutions,” it said.

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One Nation One Subscription

The Cabinet said that the Department of Higher Education will have a unified portal “One Nation One Subscription” through which the universities will be able to access the research articles and journals. The Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) will periodically review the usage of One Nation One Subscription and publications of Indian authors of these institutions.

Access to journals will be provided through a national subscription coordinated by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET), an autonomous inter-university centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC) through an entirely digital process, it informed.

The education ministry and other ministries having higher education institutions (HEIs) and research and development (R&D) institutions will be conducting Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaigns about the initiative and the methods to access the ONOS.

Further, the state governments will be directed to carry out campaigns at their level for maximizing usage of the facility by students, faculty and researchers of all government institutions.