‘One Nation One Subscription’ Scheme To Benefit 1.8 Cr Students

New Delhi: The Centre on Monday approved the ‘One Nation One Subscription’ scheme to provide country-wide access to international high-impact scholarly research articles and journal publications to students, faculty and researchers with an outlay of Rs 6,000 crore.

The fund — allocated for three calendar years (2025, 2026 and 2027) as a new central sector scheme — will help students and researchers of all higher education institutions managed by the central government and state governments and Research and Development Institutions of the central government, said the Union Cabinet.

The initiative will open a goldmine of knowledge available in top-quality scholarly journals to nearly 1.8 crore students, faculty, researchers and scientists of all disciplines, including those in tier 2 and tier 3 cities, thereby encouraging core as well as interdisciplinary research in the country

According to the Cabinet, a total of 30 major international journal publishers have been included in ‘One Nation One Subscription’.

All of the nearly 13,000 e-journals published by these publishers will now be accessible to more than 6,300 government Higher Education Institutions and Central government R&D institutions, said the Cabinet.