| With the increasing pace of technical competence, upgrading the technical skills is most critical part of faculty members in any higher technical educational establishments. With the availability of the paid versions of technical papers, this study is focused on understanding the productivity of Open Access Journal (OAJ) where there is no barrier of economical, legal, and technical factors of any sorts. The current study discusses about the situational analysis where the qualitative method is applied with experts opinion in some of the well known higher technical educational institutes in Karnataka, India. As majority of the libraries are exploring new dimensionality of exploring opportunities to influence the phenomenon of utilization of OAJ for technical competencies, hence, this paper discusses about an in depth study being performed in the educational establishments in Mysore district of Karnataka to understand the extent of impact of open access journal towards the usefulness among faculty members. |