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USE AND AWARENESS OF OPEN ACCESS SOURCES: A Study on Faculty, Scholars and Students of Andhra University M. HIMA BINDU* Dr. V. DHANARAJU** ABSTRACT The open access sources of use and awareness is becoming an important theme of substance for researchers, academics, librarians, university administrators, funding agencies, government officials, commercial publishers, and learned-society publishers etc. The exposed access literature can be pragmatic to all forms of published research output, including scholarly journal articles, conference papers, theses, book chapters and monographs. Prior to the advent of the Internet publishers and academic societies subjugated scholarly communication, and researchers channeled their research output exclusively through authoritative publishers and academic societies. Present-day when Internet has become a part of our lives, it endures to make changes in every facet of our society and restructures scholarly communication in many ways and publishing are progressively enchanting place in the electronic environment. Open Access was initiated in the developed countries and was marked by three notable declarations known as Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2002, Bethesda statement in June 2003 and the Berlin declaration in October 2003 and since then the issue is dispersion through the world and many developing countries as well as India have joined the effort. Open Access literature and journals and are expected to be read more often than those with subscriptions thereby having a higher impact rate. Additionally, open access suggestively accelerates the publication and use of new research by reducing the time lag between the actual accomplishment of a piece of research and its publication.