Dear moderator, Request you to post the following in LIS Forum: Dear friends, Widely talked *‘One nation, one subscription’* (draft S&T policy) is not a new idea. Way back in the 1990s a similar proposal that ‘*no two libraries in India will subscribe to the same journal’* was made by Prof. Vishvanathan, then Director, INSDOC (and quoted by an international journal). This happened after too many and too long efforts of ‘rationalisation of subscription to journals’ by DST. Of course, *no two libraries in India will subscribe to the same journal* never took off. As a student (over 50 years ago), while studying information systems of various countries I heard/ read about *VINITI* of USSR, which used to subscribe to *one copy of all significant journals* of the world and translate each issue cover to cover to print to distribute to Russian scholars and researchers. By doing so, they have not only achieved ‘*one nation, one subscription’*, but *overcome barriers to language and OA* within the country. All these were easily possible for them within reasonable expenditure because of the totalitarian nature of the country. One another difference, today, is that we are talking of e-journals and not print journals. In a democratic set up, knowingly that it is impracticable and prohibitively costly, should we go with ‘one nation, one subscription’? If pursued, it will be like *‘networking for resource sharing’* and *‘consortia approach to subscription’* projects of past 2-3 decades where covert objectives of *centralization of resources and authority/ power *are met but not savings and extra service. Issues are certainly debatable! Yours, M S Sridhar, Former Head, Library and Documentation, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.