Grants directory

To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.

To document endangered heritage sites, inland and coastal, in the region from the Cham coast of Vietnam, through Indonesia, Brunei, and Sri Lanka to the Maldives.

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 support the capacity-building of local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and conservation-based solutions.

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 enable Open Syllabus to fully explore its potential to support open learning, curricular design, student mobility, research on fields and intellectual history, and other aspects of higher education.

To enable Public.Resource.Org to expand its work in three key areas: edicts of government, text and data mining and access to knowledge.

To support the development of the field of knowledge about foundations as institutions.

To establish an emergency response fund to support their partners on the ground most affected by COVID19.

To support the Open Access Button in three key areas: to meet proven demand for tools that give libraries leverage in big deals; to compete with for-profit access tools; and to lower the cost of making papers open access.

To support the global response to the COVID19 crisis.

To establish a global Urban Alliance under the auspices of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The project will develop and promote a standard set of indicators on urban ecosystem health that enable cities to identify challenges and evaluate the effectiveness of their efforts to become greener environments.

Towards the theatre's running costs.

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 complete the digitization of the National Library of Sweden’s (NLS) holdings of all Swedish historical newspapers up to 1906.

To set up and support a strategic advocacy organisation that will increase the capacity of the open movement to strategically influence digital policy making in the European Union.

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.

Towards the publication of open access monographs, and to further open access initiatives by membership and participation in other organizations advancing open access.

To restore a set of Europe’s degraded landscapes so that they are self-sustaining, enriched with biodiversity, resilient to climate change, and benefit both people and nature.

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.

Towards the costs of running the Wende Museum.

To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them available in an open-access online archive.

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

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

Advancing open access

To help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising and governance.

Advancing open access

To build responsible access workflows for copyright and information policy. This grant ensures that Berkeley can continue helping scholars to use, create, and publish scholarship in ways that promote dissemination, accessibility, and impact.

Advancing open access

Advancing open access

To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.

The Library plans to put this generous contribution to good use by funding the publication of open access monographs via TOME, and to further open access initiatives by membership and participation in organizations such as Libraria.

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

Digitizing approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and putting it online.

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results available online through an open-access database.

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 digitize and make available online 100,000 books that are cited in Wikipedia.

To digitize and make permanently available online two collections from the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections; the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library's signature holdings.

Advancing open access