Peter Suber described that “Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions”5. Open access can also be defines as providing free access for all Internet users to scholarly information that is published or to be published in research journals. Many academic libraries are trying to provide free and open access material in the form of scholarly journal publications, textbooks and open educational resources. While there are many free resources, the term “open access” refers specifically to 450 International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science | Vol.4 No.4, Dec. 2014 content that is peer-reviewed and shareable according to author licenses, such as Creative Commons, or it refers to contracts the author signs with a publisher to retain certain rights. These rights are listed on the SHERPA/RoMEO Web site (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation/Rights Metadata for Open Archiving) and pertain to publisher policies on the self-archiving of journal articles online