Grants directory

Allocated to the Blue Door Fund to support outreach services where they are most needed from March 2019 to December 2020

Towards work on the Perthshire wildlife reserves and on the Largiebaan restoration project

To support existing and new eye health programmes in Asia and Africa.

To propagate and plant rare and hard to grow montane scrub willow species

To support graduate students, to bring distinguished visiting scholars to UCLA to give lectures and teach courses, to underwrite conferences and workshops, and for other purposes that the chair of the UCLA History Department determines to be beneficial to the vitality of the field of medieval history at UCLA.

Trustee-led grant offered in December 2018

To continue to support the Endangered Archives Programme, a grants programme that funds projects to digitise neglected, vulnerable or inaccessible archives older than the mid-twentieth century. The digitized materials are available for free online.

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

To establish a grants programme that funds projects to digitize and make accessible at-risk archival materials from the 20th and 21st centuries. The digitized materials are available for free online.

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

To address threats and restore degraded habitats in the Yellow Sea region in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.

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

To record interviews with farmers, land owners, scientists and representatives from organizations about the experience of change in farming practices, landownership and land management in Britain after World War II.

To protect and restore marine life and ecosystems in some of the most biodiverse areas of the oceans through policy changes at the national and regional levels

To influence how rivers are governed, protected in law, and valued through planning and management, with the aim of ensuring that rivers are used sustainably and can continue to perform their critical biodiversity functions.

To provide free access to declassified government information and improve the content's discoverability

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 support the development of resources for scholarly communications officers, librarians, and other individuals who train faculty, covering subject areas such as open access, fair use, publication contracts, rights reversion and termination of transfer

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 support the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) to continue its mission to protect deep-sea species and ecosystems from the harmful impacts of fishing and mining, and to strengthen and enhance biodiversity conservation and governance in international oceans.

To help digitize and make publicly available on the Internet 23,000 books in Arabic. NYU and partner institutions' are contributing published books in all fields – literature, business, science, and more – from their Arabic collections. The books range in date from very early materials to imprints as late as the 1990s. Many of the older books are rare or fragile, and nearly all are out of print.

To support the development of the Commons Collaborative Archive and Library, a tool for discovery and collaboration that will make the global commons of openly-licensed content more searchable, usable, and resilient, and provide essential infrastructure for collaborative online communities.

To improve how libraries find open access content. The project will create free, open source tools for institutions to help them find open access copies more efficiently. This will save money, speed-up access to research and increase use of existing open access outputs.

Supporting ongoing efforts to liberate taxonomic data from scientific publications, making them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and creating a critical mass to make the resulting repository and tools the de facto standards in the taxonomic community.

To build and support a new non-profit free search engine that will make it easy for the public to find, read, and understand the peer-reviewed literature

To digitize and give open access to legal documents, technical standards, traditional knowledge, scientific knowledge, edicts of government, and safety standards that should be in the public domain.

Towards digitizing more than 15,000 volumes of published monographs from university libraries' collections, and making them available via the Internet Archive’s controlled digital lending platform, which protects the university presses’ intellectual property and institutional investments.

To develop technology, policies, and partnerships that will increase the amount of book content that researchers can access digitally.

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 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.

To digitize and publish online the Arabic and Syriac manuscript codices of St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.

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

To document the cultural heritage of the Maldives, and to publish the material online in an open-access database

To survey and document endangered historic buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province, ranging in date from early medieval to 19th century, and to publish the results online in an open-access bilingual database.

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.

To provide core costs for the European Council on Foreign Relations.

To fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia, and to make these available in an open-access online archive.

To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials