National Open Access Summit 2025 — Advancing Equitable Scholarly Communication in Nigeria
A landmark convening of universities, funders, and researchers to advance equitable scholarly communication in Nigeria, hosted at Abuja.
The National Open Access Summit 2025 brought together over 200 participants from Nigeria's research and education community in Abuja.
Key outcomes
The summit produced a joint declaration calling for mandatory open access policies at Nigerian universities and federal research institutes.
Adoption of the Model Open Science Policy as a national framework
Commitment to fund repository infrastructure through TETFund
Launch of the PIDsLink national persistent identifier registry
What this means for institutions
Universities and polytechnics are now encouraged to adopt the Nigerian Common Metadata Schema (NCMS) and connect their repositories to the RUMBU national stack.