For libraries, open access offers a variety of new opportunities and challenges. In the long-term, open access may help shrinking materials budgets by mitigating costs for resource purchase and access. It may also reduce some of the headaches involved in negotiating electronic journals and database licenses.13 Many open access advocates are optimistic that it will enhance scholarly communication by making content broadly available and by providing relief to libraries from continuing large price increases of subscription journals.14 There is no doubt, open access has enhanced scholarly communication and library users are getting unrestricted and free access to scholarship. It is always not possible for a library to purchase or access to full range of research literature on payment basis while open access publishing model has added a lot to library collection indirectly. Libraries play an essential role in open access developments by their expertise in building infrastructure, in creating user-friendly services of high quality and in securing long-term access.15 Academic libraries have played an active role in the expansion of the OA movement by promoting it in a variety of ways: