ABSTRACT
Becoming aware of the literature of intellectual production, we reached to some studies relevant to our current curriculum that is: The role of open access in supporting the digital repositories activities. The first study of Ballou Amna entitled: open institutional archive and open access to scientific and technical information, 2014. This study aims to identify the movement of open access to information and monitoring the different ways of access, also aims to identify the open archive and its importance for researchers, international community and its role in saving the digital sources and accessing them freely without financial or technical restrictions. The major findings of the study proved that free access to information in open archive increases the knowledge rates of intellectual works of researchers and enables the researchers to provide the research drafts through
1 INTRODUCTION
Scientific and technical information has great importance in information society it is the primary and main material for achieving development in different fields of life because of its great benefits which help in taking the right decision as it witnessed great development and wide growth on the internet, which is considered as one of the most successful means to transfer and exchange them, for the speed of communication and the storage capacity with the possibility of accessing these information in different forms and types easily.
