Grants directory

To document archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery.

To help scholarly communities organise peer-review of preprints and working papers through a not-for-profit, university-governed ecosystem, bypassing commercial publishers.

To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and India and to make them available for free online.

Towards enabling Creative Commons, EIFL, and SPARC to execute a global campaign that promotes the open sharing of climate and biodiversity research, making immediate open access publishing the default. The campaign aims to empower governments, institutions, and activists who currently lead critical climate and biodiversity work, to embed open practices and policies in their operations.

To create an online open-access database of heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites.

The project will produce high impact research, provide training to a global network of change makers, and connect a global expert network to a global community of researchers, libraries, museums, archives and digital rights activists active in international copyright policy making.

To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses, which is vital to combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

To create properly managed refuges for marine life whilst longer term systemic changes are made

To bring reforms to copyright law and regulation that enable libraries to provide greater possibilities to access and use of copyrighted works. To promote reform at the European and national levels, and provide valuable examples for the rest of the world

To digitize all of the National Library of Sweden’s holdings of Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available on the internet as open data for anyone to read or use.

To provide core support to Redalyc&AmeliCA to improve discoverability and open access to journals without author-fees (‘diamond OA’).

To develop policies and legal strategies to expand and strengthen the public domain, ensuring that everyone can always freely reuse public domain content. The project will also aim to develop user rights (of both individual and institutional users) to access and share content with legal clarity for the beneficiaries of exceptions and limitations.

To increase the centre’s fundraising capacity, and to provide match-funding for an endowment supporting the centre’s work in digitization and archival preservation.

Trustee-led grant offered in December 2018

To improve funding and resourcing for the open technology and systems that research relies on

To help develop the infrastructures, business models, networks and resources to support open access books publishing by small-to-medium-sized publishers, non-profits and scholarly libraries

To digitize, preserve and provide free online access to endangered modern printed and digital ephemera.

To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing land adjacent to the Patagonia Park, which contains key access points and valuable habitat for threatened wildlife.

Towards construction costs for the Wende Museum's international centre for digitization and conservation of at-risk post-war archives

To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database.

To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation

To strengthen actions to reduce the illegal and unsustainable trade of African wild species to Asia through data gathering, information sharing, engagement and innovative interventions.

To support Miriam Rothschild scholars to participate in the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership.

To purchase a piece of land beside Ibera National Park

To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and India and to make them available for free online.

Reducing trade threats to Africa's wild species and ecosystems through strengthened knowledge and action in Africa and beyond. This purpose of this project is to strengthen actions to conserve and protect wildlife populations, areas of high biodiversity, and communities in Africa threatened by illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade, with a particular focus on trade to Asia.

To enforce the laws that protect European wildlife and habitats through targeted litigation and other legal interventions, supported and complemented by strategic advocacy and capacity building with partners across Europe.

To continue support for the documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on the ground survey.

To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to publish the results through an online database.

To provide five bursaries for graduates and young professionals from the USA, for graduate studies at Oxford University.

To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.

Support for Blue Ventures’ core operations.

To develop a working prototype of the Digital Public Library of America platform.

To develop a scientific foundation for agricultural soil carbon credits.

To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it available for free online to users from African institutions

To create a publicly accessible database of endangered archaeological heritage in Mongolia using satellite imagery and on-the-ground survey.

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results available online through an open-access database.

To establish a grants programme to document endangered cultural practices, focusing on material culture, namely how things are made and how they are used. The digitized materials are available for free online.

To produce an integrated public access database for the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia.