Reflection of Indian Open Access Repositories in OpenDOAR: A Status Report Mr. Mohmmad Azim Semi Professional Maulana Azad Library Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh E-mail: azeemalig.khan@gmail.com Dr. Nabi Hasan Librarian Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Ex. University Librarian, Aligarh Muslim University) E-mail: hasan@library.iitd.ac.in Abstract The Directory of Open Access Repositories- OpenDOAR is the repository of repositories which provides the access to open access repositories around the world. It allows registering the repository through its online portal. The staffs engaged in maintaining this repository harvest and assign the metadata to allow the categorisation and analyses the same for wider utilization of repositories. All the registered repositories are visited by the OpenDOAR and analysed by the expert staff to ensure that the useful data and information is available to the user community around the world. This champion repository is maintained by the University of Nottingham, UK. The paper highlights its features and contribution of Indian Universities/Institutions and the usage of some top contributing repositories. The study presents an analysis and explores the Indian repositories who have registered in the OpenDOAR and allows to access and download their data through OpenDOAR platform. The study also highlights the contributing Universities/Institutions and about the different types of software used to create their repositories. Keywords: OpenDOAR, Institutional Repositories, IR, Open Access, Creative Commons 1.0 Introduction The Directory of Open Access Repositories- OpenDOAR is a global vast repository and provides a platform to other repositories of the world to get registered themselves for widest use of all the repositories globally. It is maintained by SHERPA Services of University of Nottingham. The OpenDOAR provides access to the repositories from around the world on a single platform. It uses the methodology by harvesting and assigning the metadata for categorisation for easiest and widest exploitation of all the repositories. The primary aim of OpenDOAR is to provide the support for the academic and research activities to the global community. OpenDOAR provides the different search methods to search the listed repositories. The homepage of OpenDOAR is quite easy and informative. It allows the users to search the contents by different search methods like- search by subject area, country-wise searching, searching by content type, searching by type of repository, software platform filtering and also by language. It can also restrict the search by summaries which restrict the search by tables, graphs, full records, titles etc.