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The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union protested connected Tuesday extracurricular the university’s Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library, demanding entree to world journals arsenic scholars are “facing difficulties successful conducting their research”.
“Since April this year, students person had nary entree to world journals oregon integer libraries specified arsenic JSTOR. We present travel the One Nation, One Subscription (ONOS) argumentation nether which students get entree to each journals. But respective journals are not portion of ONOS, and this is impacting scholars,” said JNUSU president Nitish Kumar.
The ONOS, envisioned nether the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, comprises 30 planetary diary publishers. It aims to supply unified entree to planetary scholarly e-journals and database subscriptions for each authorities higher acquisition institutions.
Several students said they person antecedently written to the medication regarding entree to journals, arsenic it is unaffordable to subscribe to them independently. The students besides said that anterior to April, they had entree to JSTOR, which contains implicit 10 cardinal articles.
