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‘One Nation One Subscription’ (ONOS) Initiative
Context
The Union Cabinet approved the ‘One Nation One Subscription’ (ONOS) initiative for centralised access to research articles and journal publication for government higher education institutions and research and development (R&D) laboratories of the central government.
What is ONOS?
- ONOS is a plan to consolidate researchers’ subscriptions to prominent academic journals and other similar publications.
- Once in place, the ONOS initiative will provide access to journal articles to all individuals in India for one “centrally negotiated payment”. The ONOS will replace individual institutional journal subscriptions.
- Need of the initiative:
- Subscriptions to scientific journals are a costly affair. According to a research, India spent around Rs 1,500 crore on subscription for electronic and print journals in 2018. Institutions also spent around Rs 30-50 crore on access to SCOPUS and Web of Science, which are popular citation databases.
- The Indian government spent around Rs 995 crore on journal subscriptions in 2022.
- This included “the spending by the ten library consortia funded by different ministries/departments and self-subscriptions by individual government academic and R&D institutions”.
- Overall, the total expenditure for 2019-2022 was estimated to be around Rs 2,985 crore.
- The ONOS initiative is also expected to include concessions on fees that authors have to pay to have their work published in open access journals.
- The central government has allocated Rs 6,000 crore for ONOS until 2027.
- All higher education institutions under central or State governments and R&D institutions of central government can avail the benefits of the initiative through a national subscription.
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