Grants directory

To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps.

To digitize and make publicly accessible travellers' and naturalists' field manuscripts on South America, 1800 to 2000.

Towards supporting open access initiatives at MIT Press, elsewhere in MIT or outside MIT, as identified by the MIT Press Director.

To lobby the US Government on the need for marine spatial planning in national ocean policy.

To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.

To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust.

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Kent Wildlife Trust.

To increase access to special library collections and train graduate students and scholars in collections management.

Towards the costs of a new staff editor for Places Journal - a free scholarly publication dedicated to architecture, landscape and urbanism, and promoting equitable cities and resilient landscapes.

To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science.

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 lobby the US Government on the need for marine spatial planning in national ocean policy.

To secure a national open access policy requiring immediate open access to all US federally-funded research outputs; to promote measurable changes in the ways universities and research funders incentivise and reward the open sharing of research outputs; and to catalyze actions to secure academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.

Advancing open access

To support the global response to the COVID19 crisis.

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

advancing open access

To enable the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative to provide expert input into the negotiations of the incipient UN treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (UN BBNJ) and International Seabed Authority (ISA) mining regulations, to ensure that they are fit for purpose and enforceable.

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

To develop a publicly accessible inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan to enable future scientific research and effective heritage management.

To continue extraction and interpretation of data from an ice core documenting European climate in the last 3,500 years.

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

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 train African biodiversity conservation professionals.

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 treat mothers and carers with HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

To develop the network in Spain, Norway and Turkey, and secure positions for scholars from Iran, Iraq and Bhutan.

To advance all forms of freedom of communication. This includes defending freedom of expression, information, the press, the arts and the sciences, wherever these rights are constrained by copyright and information laws.

To develop legal tools for open access to academic publications

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

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

To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.

To support organisational development.

To increase the availability and quality of conservation literature online by expanding awareness and knowledge of scholarly communications.

To collect, preserve and make available online endangered cultural artefacts related to the contemporary (~200 years) history of science in South Asia. It will also develop a prototype tool for interpretation and access through linked open data and public annotation of archival material

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.

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.

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