Resources

We make some grants through out-sourced programmes. Learn more about how and why we do regranting.

Find out more about how and why we fund projects to promote open access.

Public.Resource.Org is dedicated to publishing and sharing public domain materials that legally and morally should be free, but are locked behind paywalls.

Despite large-scale digitization projects, much recent scholarship is still only available in print, making it inaccessible to scholars, policy makers and the public.

The amount of open access material on the internet is continually growing. Creative Commons allows people to easily share their own material for the benefit of others.

Our grant will enable free online access to more than 2,500 rare Islamic manuscripts and books from the Library’s collection

Read our response to the 2020 UKRI’s open access review consultation.

Our grantee, the Internet Archive, has announced a new initiative that will make more than 1.4 million digital books freely available to a world under lockdown.

Read our response to the 2020 Office of Science and Technology Policy’s request for information on public access to peer-reviewed scholarly information.

A message from our Donor Board to Arcadia’s grantees.

Imagining the future of libraries: an argument for open access and proper archiving of the world’s publications and data. Article by Arcadia's co-founder Lisbet Rausing.

Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. Open access book by Arcadia co-founder Peter Baldwin.