Founded by lisbet rausing and peter baldwin, arcadia supports charities and scholarly institutions to preserve cultural heritage, protect the environment, and promote open access. Since 2002, we have awarded more than $678 million in grants to projects around the world.
Why should cultural heritage institutions make collections #openaccess & allow reuse? @CultureDoug & @AndeeWallace explain @Apollo_magazine apollo-magazine.com/open-access-im… Want to know what else our grants team is reading? Subscribe to our monthly digest: mailchi.mp/f6959902154d/a…
Happy 5th birthday @360Giving!🎂Check out our grants data: grantnav.threesixtygiving.org/funder/360G-Ar…
Carl Malamud @carlmalamud and his team at Public.Resource.Org are dedicated to publishing & sharing public domain materials that legally and morally should be free, but are locked behind paywalls. Delighted to continue to support this important work #openaccess🔓 twitter.com/carlmalamud/st…
Our response to @UKRI_News's #openaccess review consultation arcadiafund.org.uk/our-response-t…
A new report by @Intlrivers & partners spotlights women’s achievements in river governance and the barriers to their leadership. Read the report in full or check out the Asia Women and Rivers Congress workshops to learn more: sites.google.com/womenandrivers… sites.google.com/womenandrivers…
Great white sharks have disappeared from South African cage diving hotspots. Orcas were initially blamed, but @TRAFFIC_WLTrade data reveals a complicated story involving overfishing & Australian ‘fish’ & chips… twitter.com/TRAFFIC_WLTrad… twitter.com/TRAFFIC_WLTrad…
How one teaspoon of Amazon soil teems with fungal life bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
Proud to continue supporting @EAMENA123! The project helps to protect heritage by documenting endangered archaeological sites in the #MENA. So far it has published +300,000 records via an online #openaccess database to enable monitoring of sites under threat. twitter.com/EAMENA123/stat…
"If the question is survival, survival of life's diversity and human dignity and healthy human communities, then the answer must include rewilding the Earth. As much and as quickly as possible" @KrisTompkins_ @TompkinsConserv ted.com/talks/kristine… via @TEDTalks
Two of our environmental grantees @ClientEarth & @Global_Witness have teamed up and are calling on the UK to tackle its environmental footprint overseas. twitter.com/ClientEarth/st…
80% of our oceans are unexplored, and we cannot protect what we don’t understand. Read more on the challenges of ocean exploration and its crucial role in making the case for Marine Protected Areas in @oceana @EmilyPetsko’s blogpost: oceana.org/blog/why-does-…
2,500 rare texts from Islamic world to go online for free theguardian.com/books/2020/jun…