Abstract: The paper took an investigation of the Institutional Repositories in Chinese universities,and analyses the status about amount of resources,types of resources,browse manners,language distribution,software platform,collection policies,and so on．There are some deficiencies existing in the academic Institutional Repositories,for example,lacking of funds and resources,existing intellectual resistance,short of uniform standards,etc．And then corresponding countermeasures were put forward．

Key words: Open access,Academic institutional repositories,IR,Intellectual property rights