Our Research “Institutional repository as Harbingers of advanced Academic library for open Access: A Study” is a 170 journal articles stored in DigiNole Commons, the institutional repository of Florida State University, this study examines the extent to which a repository makes publications available and accessible on the public Internet. We carried out separate known-item title searches on Google and Google Scholar (GS) to look for faculty papers stored in DigiNole Commons in order to examine the repository's effects on accessibility and availability. The repository's availability and accessibility of its articles was quantified, and the discoveries that couldn't be quantified were qualitatively examined. For a total of 199 (85.398%) of 179 entries, links to DigiNole metadata and complete texts were found using Google and Google Scholar searches, respectively. With one exception, accessing the complete text or the information didn't take more than three clicks. Overall, the findings support the institutional repository's role in making articles accessible and available. The findings also point out some barriers to the success of open access, including barriers related to author-publisher contract agreements, barriers related to the policies, practises, and technologies governing the repository itself, and the low participation rate of faculty in the repository.