Emerging developments in Internet in the 1990s led to global sharing of knowledge and universal access to information resources. Scholarly communication channels got tremendous impetus, when Internet pushed further their reach, availability and readership. Adaptation of information and
communication technologies (ICT) in academic research environment helped in enhancing productivity of research scholars. Borderless or cross-border nature of Internet pushed further global access to knowledge resources and academic databases round the corner in 24X7 timeframe. Many scholarly journals in print format started publishing their electronic edition, which since
then are popularly known as electronic journals or e-journals. Scholarly open access (OA) journals are a kind of e-journals available in online environment
through Internet, without any access barrier, such as annual subscription fee. In
the beginning years of the 21st Century, scholarly communities got engaged
with the global OA movements for opening up scholarly resources, more
particularly research literature, to worldwide researchers’ communities without
any access fee or subscription cost. Then researchers’ communities availed not
only free access to scholarly contents, but also other bundle of rights need to
be provided to creators and users of research literature. Freedom of sharing,
archiving, reusing and remixing of scholarly contents was not available
through normal copyright protection mechanisms.