This paper highlights the library and information science literature in open access environment across a globe. There are two main routes to provide open access to scholarly literature. One is Open Access (OA) journals and another is through placing articles published in OA archives or repositories. For this purpose, (Directory of Open Access Repositories) OpenDOAR and Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) was studied to find their growth rate, continent , country, language wise distribution as well as total items available and OAI-PMH supported repositories. 

Keywords:Open access;Open access (OA) journals;Open access repositories;Open DOAR;DOAJ; OAI-PMH.