An online survey was carried out on attitude and awareness on open access was carried out among the NARS researchers in India using questions from American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) on Open Knowledge Society's server. The survey revealed that they search at Google Scholar (82%) for scholarly literature akin to general public and have very poor access to the scholarly literature. Nearly 50% of the researchers were not aware of open access; however, ~60% of them were in support for open access. Nearly 80% of them know that their research is publicly funded and are aware of about open access Institutional Repositories and they would deposit revised articles sent for publications to make publicly funded research open. More advocacies on open access, capacity building and infrastructure establishment would definitely help the researchers to share and access the required literature.