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 Publishing to critical acclaim, Library Journal says the book is "Essential reading for all library workers and information professionals and, indeed, for any person concerned about the future of libraries" and Booklist says "this accessible and visionary work belongs in most professional collections." Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries updates, expands upon, and broadens the discussions on the future of libraries and the ways in which they transform information services to best serve their communities.Library 2035 explores the lessons learned over the past decade and forecasts the opportunities, strengths, and challenges for libraries in the future. Contributors including R. David Lankes, Kelvin Watson, Annie Norman, Miguel Figueroa, and Nicole Cooke, along with 25 other library leaders, were asked to describe the "library of 2035" in whatever way they wanted. Their responses to this question will inspire, provoke, challenge, and expand our thinking about the role and importance of libraries in the future. Library leaders, LIS students and faculty will find this book particularly meaningful and useful as we grapple with what the future of libraries and the profession will be.

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          How can librarianship be liberatory? How does librarianship help people to be free? How is library capacity and expertise used to increase freedom, justice, and community? This invigorating collected volume from Core unpacks these questions, and many others besides, to reveal the many ways that library workers and their institutions are applying skills, knowledge, abilities, professional ethics, and personal commitment to practice liberatory librarianship. These examples will serve as guideposts and inspiration for readers undertaking their own efforts. With a special emphasis on the voices of non-white practitioners, the themes and stories explored in this volume include histories of several liberatory efforts, such as the Digital Library of the Caribbean's (dLOC) open access repository of Caribbean and circum-Caribbean resources, restorative justice at the UK's SOAS Library, and examples of unsiloing DEI work; the work of visionary, liberatory librarians such as Dr. Alma Jordan, Lillian Marrero, Rosa Quintero Mesa, and Judith Rogers; innovative programs such as those at Oakland Public Library and Stanford University's KNOW System Racism Project; library instruction for college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and a liberatory archival training program; and the radical and liberatory power of empathy in librarianship for imagining and enacting change.

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Introduction

To portray the status of higher education in the country, Ministry of Education has endeavoured to conduct an annual web-based All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) since 2010-11. The survey covers all the Institutions in the country engaged in imparting of higher education. Data is being collected on several parameters such as teachers, student enrolment, programmes, examination results, education finance, infrastructure.

Indicators of educational development such as Institution Density, Gross Enrolment Ratio, Pupil-teacher ratio, Gender Parity Index, Per Student Expenditure will also be calculated from the data collected through AISHE. These are useful in making informed policy decisions and research for development of education sector.

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License and Fair use

Permitted Usage

Authorized Users from ONOS member institutions may access or use the Licensed Materials subscribed as per the the following agreed terms:

1. Search, retrieve, display and view the Licensed Materials Electronically.
2. Download a digital copy, digitally save, digitally copy, and print a reasonable por-tion of the Licensed Materials. Licensee may charge a reasonable fee to recover costs of copying or printing portions of Licensed Materials for Authorized Users and such fees shall not constitute commercial use.
3. Provide single printed or electronic copies of single articles at the request of indi-vidual Authorized Users or a third party colleague for personal, scholarly, educa-tional, scientific, or research uses (scholarly sharing).
4. Incorporate parts of the Licensed Materials in printed or electronic form in as-signments and portfolios, theses and in dissertations which may include extraction and manipulation for the purpose of illustration, explanation, example, comment, criticism, teaching, research, and analysis with proper attribution to the publisher.
5. For scholarly citation, with appropriate credit, figures, tables, and brief excerpts with proper attribution to the publisher.

Restrictions

The Institution and Authorized Users are not allowed the following during the agreement as well as after termination of the agreement.

1. Commercial Use: sell or resell the Licensed Materials unless the Licensor has given the Licensee or an Authorized User permission in writing to do so. For the avoidance of doubt, research conducted by Licensee and Authorized Users that is supported by a commercial entity shall not be considered use for commercial purposes.
2. Remove Copyright Notice: remove, obscure or alter copyright notices, acknowledgements or other means of identification or disclaimers included in the Licensed Materials.
3. Modification of Licensed Materials: alter or adapt the Licensed Materials, except to the extent necessary to make it perceptible on a computer screen.
4. Display on Network: display or distribute any part of the Licensed Materials on any electronic network (including the internet) other than by a Secure Network.
5. Access to Unauthorized Users: knowingly or intentionally provide access and/or allow use of the Licensed Materials by anyone other than Authorized Users.

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APC Support

Article Publishing Charges /Article Processing Charges (APC) is one of the components of the ONOS scheme. APCs for selected good quality open access journals will be centrally funded through the executing agency for ONOS. As decided by the Core Committee, ONOS, fully open access journals which are in top 1% as per any of the 3 indicators: CiteScore, SNIP or SJR published by SCOPUS are eligible for payment of APC from ONOS. The Open Access journals can be either from the 30 publishers providing access to their published journals in ONOS or other publishers.

Read-and-Publish

• ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM Digital Library) is subscribed under Read-and-Publish Agreement under ONOS. This agreement provides 6,500 government-funded higher education and research institutions across India with Premium Access to the ACM Digital Library, while enabling authors in participating institutions to publish an unlimited number of Open Access research articles in ACM journals, ACM conference proceedings and ICPS Proceedings with no article processing charges (APCs). More details available at https://www.acm.org/media-center/2025/april/onos-initiative-acm-open-agreement

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How to Access resources under ONOS ?

The different types of access modules under ONOS based on the existing infrastructure of the participating institutions are as under:

1. For Institutions who have their own static IP address for subscription to journal resources (example: University / Central Government Higher Education Institutions/ Research Institutions, etc.): For such institutions, access will be available through: 
2. Campus wide-Network: This means any computer /laptop/mobile device connected in Campus network will automatically get access to articles from all considered publishers. No separate individual user registration is required.
3. Off-campus Access through INFED: using user Id and password through Shibboleth based Institute Identity Provider (IDP) authenticated by INFED Access Management Federation setup at INLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar.

For Colleges & Institutions NOT having Static IP Address

Centralized IDP setup at INFLIBNET using INFED is maintained by INFLIBNET Centre and institutional users managed by Librarian/nodal person of the Institute

Authorised users from member Institutions are required to get their User ID and password from their respective colleges.

Existing government users of any of the consortia, including state government higher education institutions having their static IP address are being automatically ported to the ONOS portal for smooth transition. Any of these users, if they face any issue, should write to email to support[at]onos[dot]gov[dot]in along with name, designation and contact details (mobile, email) of institute nodal officer.

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ONOS

Introduction

1. The Prime Minister of India in his address to the Nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15th August, 2022, had pointed out the importance of Research and Development in our country in the Amrit Kaal. He had given the clarion call of “Jai Anusandhan” on the occasion.
2. The National Education Policy, 2020 (NEP 2020) has also identified research as a corequisite for outstanding education and development in our country.
3. In response to the vision of making India Atmanirbhar and Viksitbharat@2047, the Government of India approved 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 of all Higher Education Institutions managed by the central government and state governments and Research & Development Institutions of the central government.
4. The One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) intends to acquire national licenses for e-journal/database subscriptions from most of the prominent journal publishers. A total of 30 major international journal publishers have been included in ONOS. All the journals published by these publishers will be accessible to the students, faculty members and researchers of the participating institutions.
5. The initiative will open a goldmine of knowledge available in top quality scholarly journals to nearly 1.8 crore students, faculty members, 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.
6. The ONOS is starting its operation from 1^st January 2025. ONOS phase-I has been approved for the calendar years 2025, 2026 and 2027.
7. Access to journals are being provided through national subscription coordinated by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre, an autonomous inter-university centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC), Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
8. The Department of Higher Education, Government of India will have a unified portal “One Nation One Subscription“ (https://www.onos.gov.in/) through which the institutions will be able to access the journals. The ANRF will periodically review the usage of One Nation One Subscription and publications of Indian authors of these institutions.
9. One Nation One Subscription is a timely step towards establishing India in the global research ecosystem by bringing ease of doing research to the doorstep of all students, faculty members and researchers in the government institutions.

Background

Before ONOS, access to subscription journals were being acquired through different library consortia of government departments, academic and R & D institutions; and through individual subscriptions by various higher education and R & D institutions. The major 10 library consortia were:

Sl. No.	Consortium/Group of Institutions/Department/Ministry
1	E-Shodh Sindhu (ESS) Consortium under Department of Higher Education (DHE)
2	National Knowledge Resource Consortium (NKRC) of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR)
3	DERCON Consortium under Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
4	CERA Consortium under Department of Agricultural Research & Education (DARE)
5	DRDO Consortium under Department of Defence Research and Development (DDR&D)
6	Electronic Resources in Medicine (ERMED) Consortium under Department of Health Research (DHR)
7	Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
8	DeLCON Consortium for Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and North-Eastern Region Institutes
9	Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) consortium
10	Department of Space (DoS) consortium

In addition, many Higher Education Institutions used to subscribe some of the journals of these publishers at the institution level.

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