International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS) ISSN: 2455-104X DOI: 10.26761/IJRLS.7.4.2021.1479 Volume 7, Issue 4 (October-December) 2021, 272-279, Paper ID: IJRLS-1479 Received: 20 November. 2021 ; Accepted: 06 Dec. 2021 ; Published: 23 December. 2021 Copyright © 2021 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article. This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. 2021 ©IJRLS All Rights Reserved www.ijrls.in Page 272 User Awareness and Attitude towards on Open Access Resources in GFGC Libraries in North Karnataka: A Case Study Ramesh S. Puttannanavar 1 ; Dr. Ningappa N. Arabagonda 2 Assistant Librarian, Karnataka Samskrit University, Chamarajpete, Bangalore-560018, Karnataka State, India 1 ; Selection Grade Librarian, Government First Grade College Byadagi-581106, Karnataka State, India 2 rameshsp2018@gmail.com, nnarabagonda@gmail.com ABSTRACT The present study finds out the awareness and attitude of users in the use of open access resources in 126 Government First Grade College (GFGC) libraries in North Karnataka. The major findings of the study are to influence the awareness about open access resources, channels are used to access, purpose and reason for using open access resources, level of satisfaction and perception towards open access resources. The researcher distributed 6000 questionnaire among the staff and students in 126 GFGC libraries in North Karnataka. Out of 6000 questionnaires, were 5410 response .The study disclose that the majority of the respondents were fully aware about open access resources and most of the respondents were using open access resources for their course related work and satisfied its uses in their academic activity. KEYWORDS: User Awareness, Open Access Resources, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access. INTRODUCTION In the recent year the development of science & technology create a greater opportunity in the ICT for shared available information to the end user in the society. In this part Open-access is one of the component, which are freely available to the end user at free of cost. No need to pay either by the institution or the individual for accessing, and downloading articles. In the OA user can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full texts of these articles. Open access resources are present different forms such as open e-book, open databases, journals, newsletters, institution repositories, personal websites, blogs, wikis, databases, videos, audios, webcasts, discussion forums, etc.