sadiat-adetoro-salau Sadiat Adetoro Salau

Biography

Dr Sadiat Adetoro Salau is an academic librarian at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria and the Director of the Centre for Open Distance and eLearning at the University. Dr Salau has contributed significantly to the advocacy for open access at the institutional and national level in Nigeria. Her advocacy is driven by the belief that librarians should be at the forefront of expanding access to knowledge to advance research and development. She is a recipient of the 2016 INASP/UNESCO Open Access grant and the 2023 Wikimedia Alliances Open Climate Fellowship. At the national level, she leads activities on Research Assessment Reforms to support open science through her membership of the LIBSENSE Open Science Nigeria. She actively leads advocacy efforts through publications and presentations to the members of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) and the Association of University Librarians of Nigerian Universities (AULNU) on aligning research assessment practices with open science trends. She also contributes to the deployment of Open Science policy and infrastructure of other institutions. Her research interests include open science, digital technologies for knowledge management, scholarly communication, and usability studies, and she has authored and co- authored publications in these areas.