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The adoption of digital communication media, particularly the Internet, has allowed the intellectual community to access and share knowledge to enhance research competency throughout the world. Technological advancement in the field of digital information networks facilitated information professionals to manage and access knowledge resources for research and development purposes. Web-based resource management system helps scholars to preserve their research output enabling other scholars to find required information timely and accurately. The aim of this research was to explore the current practices of web-based digital resource management system in Bangladesh in the context of global access to information and knowledge management. The study reviewed related literature published in various national and international journals and also other sources. Moreover, the study also consulted with relevant bibliographic databases especially OpenDOAR, DOAJ and ROAR. Result showed that in Bangladesh some educational, science and technology, agricultural, medical and medicine, social science and general research centre are already using and managing their in-born digital resources through their respective Institutional Repository (IR). Besides, a good number of organizations are trying to implement IR for their respective organization. The outcome of the study will be helpful for IR and non-IR providing organizations in Bangladesh to manage their digital resources more effectively aiming to promoting web-based teaching and learning.