- By Ritesh Kumar
- Wed, 11 Dec 2024 05:51 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
One Nation, One Subscription: Around 1.8 crore students from state-funded higher education institutions, including universities and IITs, will gain access to research papers published in top journals worldwide under the government's 'One Nation, One Subscription' (ONOS) initiative from January 1, 2025.
The Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government, AK Sood, announced that over 13,400 international journals spanning fields such as science, technology, engineering, medicine, mathematics, management, social sciences, and humanities would be accessible to researchers in the first phase of the initiative, as reported by the news agency PTI.
The ONOS initiative will provide access to journals published by 30 publishers, including renowned names like Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley. A total of 6,380 higher education and research institutes, including 451 state public universities, 4,864 colleges, and 172 institutes of national importance, will benefit from this scheme.
"Earlier, institutions such as IITs or central universities subscribed to a small set of journals related to specific disciplines but, under ONOS, all institutions will have access to 13,400 research journals," said Department of Science and Technology Secretary Abhay Karadikar.
Future phases of ONOS aim to extend the initiative to private academic institutions through a public-private partnership model and eventually provide universal access to international journals via designated access points at public libraries.
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The Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET), an autonomous inter-university centre of the UGC, will oversee the coordination of ONOS. The initiative, rolled out as a central sector scheme with a budget of Rs 6,000 crore for three years.
"The initiative will expand access to scholarly journals to a vast diaspora of students, faculty, researchers and scientists of all disciplines, including those in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, thereby promoting core as well as interdisciplinary research in the country," Sood said.
(With PTI Inputs)
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