In recent years many librarians and academic authors have become concern at what is seen as the “commercialisation” of scholarly journal publishing and the requirement for authors to sign over the copyright of a paper to the publishers prior to publication. Libraries need to pay increasingly large sums to subscribe to the printed copies of the journal or to acquire license for access to electronic versions them, these resulted to researchers failing to have access to necessary scholarly materials. However, the rapid invasion of ICTs into libraries has created platforms and opportunities for scholars to work collaboratively through extensive infrastructures, with access to resources and knowledge services in borderless environments. Academic institutions have been grappling with how to communicate to scholars the digital intellectual output they produce including journal articles, conference papers, reports, theses & dissertation, teaching materials, artwork, research notes, and research data. Clearly, technology has made it easy to create, store and access digital material. Paradoxically however, while there is potential for instantaneous access, all too often many materials are not usually made accessible to many users and they remain marooned in the authors’ computers. About 80-85% of digital intellectual output of universities is never made accessible to the public (The Open Citation Project, 2004). Also the escalating costs of online journals prohibit subscription and it is becoming more unrealistic and challenging for libraries to subscribe to all, or even most of the online academic journals (Warren, 2003). These pose a great challenge to scholarly communication among scholars. In response to the above assertion, in 2000 the appropriately named EPrints was launched by the University of Southampton, followed a couple of years later by DSpace produced by the MIT in conjunction with Hewlett Packard (Smith, Barton et al. 2003). This was followed by other software such as Digital Commons offered by BePress and the use of tools such as Fedora and Greenstone for institutional repositories. The table below shows usage of repository software in repositories registered in OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) from May 2013.