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The education ministry may extend their ONOS program to private universities

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There is a possibility that the Ministry of Education will include private HEIs in ‘One Nation, One Subscription’, according to sources.

Presently, members of the ONOS package include only government-funded institutions. But the Centre is reviewing a request to permit private universities and colleges to participate in the package on a pre-negotiated fee regime, according to sources.

"The ministry has a proposal on the table regarding the availability of ONOS on a pre-negotiated payment term to private HEIs," sources said.

There are 473 private universities and over 31,000 private colleges in India, as per the last All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) data available for the year 2021-22.

The One Nation One Subscription initiative was launched to provide across-the-board access to high quality international journals and research papers by subscribing to a centrally subsidized subscription. The initiative allows scholars to read and download peer-reviewed research papers and academic literature from top international publishers.

In addition to research paper access, the ONOS framework has also incorporated Article Processing Charges (APCs), which are required for publishing research in open-access journals. According to this scheme, APC payments to high-quality open-access journals are centrally provided through the ONOS execution agency.

As per the guidelines of ONOS, open-access journals ranking in the top 5 percent under any of the three SCOPUS indicators: CiteScore, Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP), and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), are entitled to support of APC. The open-access journals may be published by the publication houses covered by the ONOS subscriptions or by other publication houses which are eligible under ONOS guidelines.

The expansion of ONOS services to private institutions will enable academicians and scholars within the private higher education sector to access global research databases and publish their research in reputable global open access journals at a pre-negotiated rate.

All India Survey on Higher Education ONOS program

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