Open Educational Resources: Gateway to opportunities while issues to be stood up

Access to ready, authentic and freely available digital resources of information is of high priority to the academic community. Open Educational Resources (OER) have been with such immense importance to the academic and other community across the globe. OER with their inherent features and permissions - as these resources can be reused, revised, remixed, retained and redistributed, have upheld its bold and revolutionary initiatives in the digital domain. Information users can involve themselves in reshaping the resources and thus the public knowledge gets adapted more and more to produce quality OER. But certain issues like discoverability, cost management, authority, and technological aspects are still unresolved for a brighter future of OER. The paper tries to raise such crucial issues which are yet to be addressed for its vibrant potential