The One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative of the Office of PSA was approved by the Union Cabinet as a Central Sector Scheme on 25th November 2024. ONOS is aimed at providing access to scholarly research e-journals from prominent publishers covering the disciplines of STEM, medical, management, social sciences and humanities, to all individuals in the country.
Nearly 6,400 institutions across the country including Higher Educational Institutions i.e. central and state universities, colleges (including all medical colleges) and central government R&D institutions will benefit from ONOS. This translates to nearly 1.8 Crore students, faculty and researchers across the country getting access to more than 13,000 journals from 30 publishers including the top 4 global publishers i.e. Elsevier, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley.
As part of the recent Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) Act, the Government plans to seed and promote a vibrant research culture in the tier-2 and tier-3 higher educational institutions. Through ONOS, many such institutions will begin to get access to journals, which is a necessity for doing research. Under ONOS, the govt. has negotiated for national licenses for e-journal subscriptions with 30 publishers, thus consolidating various consortia/institutional subscriptions. In addition to the above, it is also planned to have a consolidated central funding to support Indian authors to pay for APCs for good quality OA journals.
ACM Digital Library
American Chemical Society
American Institute of Physics
American Physical Society
American Society for Microbiology
Annual Reviews
ASCE
ASME
Bentham Science
BMJ Journals
Cambridge University Press
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Elsevier ScienceDirect
ICE Publishing
IEEE
IndianJournals .com
Institute of Physics
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Wolters Kluwer)
Oxford University Press
Project Muse
Springer Nature
Taylor and Francis
Wiley Blackwell Publishing
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
American Mathematical Society
Emerald Publishing
Sage Publishing
SPIE Digital Library
Thieme Medical Publisher