Mr. Muhammad Akmal Ahmat is a Senior Librarian at Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has more than 11 years of experience in scholarly communication, digitalization, repository system management, journal indexing, research support services, and information services. He had been invited as panelist in many international and national scholarly occasions, as instructor for various training of trainer’s (TOT) programs as well as consultant for various libraries. He was known as an active member of the Malaysian Librarians Association and awarded the Promising Young Malaysia Librarian Award Year 2019. Currently, he is involved as a member of Working Group on Capacity Building & Awareness, the Malaysian Open Science Platform (MOSP) and instructor for ASM-ISTIC-UNESCO Training of Trainers Program on Data Stewardship for Open Science 2021.