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In a Lok Sabha written reply, the Ministry of Education said PM-ONOS now covers 7,499 higher-education and R&D institutions nationally (7,073 HEIs + 426 R&D), giving access to 13,000+ journals from 32 publishers
In Andhra Pradesh, 3.11 lakh students and 6,974 faculty have accessed ONOS journals so far, while 68 of the state's 310 eligible institutions remain unonboarded
The information was given by Minister of State for Education Dr. Sukanta Majumdar on 27 July 2026, in reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1169
Give every eligible government higher-education and R&D institution seamless access to international scholarly journals through one centrally negotiated national subscription
Key: Launched 1 January 2025 with a Phase I outlay of ₹6,000 crore for 2025-27; INFLIBNET centrally pays subscription charges for roughly 6,300 institutions nationally, reaching close to 1.8 crore students, faculty and researchers
INFLIBNET's earlier consortium for e-resource access to universities and colleges
Key: Formed by merging the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, N-LIST and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium (IIT Delhi); N-LIST itself extended access to 6,000+ government/aided colleges. Both have now been subsumed into ONOS, with N-LIST formally wound up from 2025-26
Implementing and coordinating agency for PM-ONOS; centrally negotiates and pays journal subscriptions on behalf of covered institutions
Before ONOS, individual colleges, universities and state consortia separately negotiated and paid for journal access, leaving many smaller institutions priced out. ONOS replaces this with one national subscription, centrally funded and centrally negotiated by INFLIBNET, so any eligible institution gets the same access regardless of its own budget.
Simple Analogy: Like a single national family plan for research journals that the central government buys once for the whole country, instead of every college paying separately for its own subscription.
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Recurring — ONOS coverage figures are updated periodically via Parliament replies and are a live current-affairs topic through 2027
One Nation One Subscription — a centrally funded national scheme giving eligible institutions unified access to international research journals
Information and Library Network Centre, an Inter-University Centre of the UGC under the Ministry of Education, headquartered in Gandhinagar, that implements ONOS
The INFLIBNET consortium (merging UGC-INFONET, N-LIST and INDEST-AICTE) that preceded and has now been folded into ONOS