🔆 One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) 📍 Objective ✅ Facilitate better access to academic resources for India’s higher education institutions (HEIs). 📍 Implementation ✅ INFLIBNET Centre (Information and Library Network Centre) in Gandhinagar under the Ministry of Education. ✅ Scheme operational from: January 1, 2025. 📍 Conceptualization ✅ The initiative stems from the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, emphasizing research as a critical pillar for achieving educational and national development. ✅ ONOS aims to democratize access to knowledge and promote research in India. 🔆 Current Mechanism for Journal Access 📍 HEIs currently access journals ✅ Through 10 different library consortia, under various ministries. ✅ A library consortium is a group of two or more libraries that agree to share resources. ✅ Example: INFLIBNET Centre oversees the UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium providing access to scholarly journals and databases. 📍 HEIs also subscribe to journals ✅ Individually. 🔆 Key Features of One Nation One Subscription 📍 Centralized / Single-Point Access ✅ ONOS centralizes journal subscriptions for nearly 6,300 government-run institutions, offering access to 13,000 scholarly journals published by 30 international publishers. ✅ Publishers include: Elsevier Science Direct (including Lancet), Springer Nature, Wiley Blackwell, IEEE, Sage Publishing, American Chemical Society, and American Mathematical Society, etc. ✅ Whether ONOS will also cover private HEIs is still undecided. 📍 Equity in Access ✅ HEIs from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities will have the same access as premier institutions. ✅ Institutions need to register on the ONOS platform to use it. 📍 Flexibility ✅ HEIs can still individually subscribe to journals not covered under ONOS.