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. Top quality Gold open access journals are selected based on criteria defined by Core Committee, ONOS which is updated from time to time. 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