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 $570 million in grants to projects around the world.
Preserving endangered heritage with @UCLarchaeology @ucl! Our new grant will support the Central Asian Archaeological Landscape project @uclcaal to comprehensively document sites in one of the world’s most heritage-rich areas. More about this project: bit.ly/2SbO11t
Arcadia co-founder and chair, Professor Peter Baldwin, is leading a discussion about copyright and #openaccess. 19 March 5-7pm, Court Room, Senate House @LondonU @IES_London Register here (free!) bit.ly/2EeKNGA Read Peter’s article here bit.ly/2GT7lPb
We are delighted to welcome @sam_vanschaik as the new director of our Endangered Archives Programme @bl_eap @britishlibrary! Photo: Argentinian folk dance company, Heinrich Sanguinetti Archive (1930-1956) EAP755 bit.ly/2BwD456
TODAY Prof Claudia Rapp will speak about the discoveries of the Sinai Palimpsest Project and the work to recover erased ancient texts at Catherine’s Monastery. @UniofOxford All Souls College at 5pm - all welcome! More about this project sinaipalimpsests.org
Peru’s tropical forest is the 4th biggest & one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. The country’s pioneering forest watchdog OSINFOR fights illegal logging & forest crime, but a new @Global_Witness report reveals that it's work is under threat globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/f…
Academic publishers enjoy a 30-40% profit margin from work given to them for free. The documentary Paywall examines the business of scholarship and stresses the need for #openaccess to research. SPECIAL SCREENING with Q&A on 30 Jan @britishlibrary @RL_UK bit.ly/2FzDoTw
Rising sea levels place the #Maldives at the front line of the devastating effects of #climatechange. The Maldives Heritage Survey @UniofOxford is creating a permanent #openaccess record of the islands' cultural heritage. Read more: bit.ly/2RbCiV0 @HeritageMV @EOS_SG
For the first time in +20 years, published works will enter the public domain. The copyright of books, films, music & more from 1923 has now expired, making them free for anyone to use without permission or fee #PublicDomainDay #OpenAccess Read more: bit.ly/2TkxaL0
Papua New Guinea has about 8 million people, but more than 800 languages. bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-… @BBC Through the Endangered Languages Programme @ELARarchive @SOAS, we supported the documentation of 42 of them eldp.net
Delighted to support @WetlandsInt's work to protect migratory waterbirds' habitat in the Yellow Sea area - a critically important part of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway. Read more about our new grant bit.ly/2RUS4ju
Scanning ALL out-of-copyright Swedish newspapers (1645-1906) at the National Library of Sweden @kungbib @NatLibSwe @ra_arkivgatan9. 🇸🇪 Records will be #openaccess here: tidningar.kb.se Read more about the project: bit.ly/2zW4yjQ
MENA heritage is of intentional importance, with millions of documented & undocumented archaeological sites, many at-risk. Happy to participate at #protectingthepast & discuss new approaches to heritage protection in the region @EAMENA123 @Global_Heritage protectingthepast.com/PtP2018/
