Open Access and its effect on scholarly publication, academic community and library

Open access is a rising phenomenon that seeks to make scholarly research findings freely accessible to public. This paper discusses the effect of open access on publishers, libraries, users, scholarly societies, indexing services, and resource sharing. There are many supporters for open access throughout the world. Open access is becoming a strong medium for scholarly information exchange among the academicians. Users and libraries benefit in numerous ways and are advocating open access revolution. The article deals with all such aspects of open access