One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

Option C is incorrect because ONOS uses a centrally coordinated national subscription: subscription charges for member institutions are paid centrally, so institutions do not settle separate journal bills from their own budgets. The other three statements accurately describe the scheme.

Phase I covers central and state government higher education institutions and central government research institutions and laboratories. A state government university therefore qualifies, whereas private institutions and direct individual memberships do not.

Both statements are correct and describe separate milestones. The Union Cabinet approved ONOS on 25 November 2024, while the unified subscription scheme became operational later, on 1 January 2025; approval and commencement are not the same event.

Statements 1, 2 and 4 are correct: ONOS stresses equitable research access for tier-2 and tier-3 institutions, provides a dedicated ₹150 crore annual fund for Article Processing Charges, and is centrally managed by INFLIBNET. Statement 3 is incorrect because private colleges are excluded from Phase I.

The INFLIBNET Centre implements ONOS and centrally manages subscription payments and digital access. It is an autonomous Inter-University Centre under the University Grants Commission and is based at Gandhinagar.