Grants awarded
You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.
We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants (last updated July 2024). Arcadia has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.
Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA)
To accelerate research assessment reform by undertaking analysis and creating tools and resources to help institutions in the United States and Europe.
$1,200,000
2021
3 years
Invest in open infrastructure
To improve funding and resourcing for open technology and systems which underpin access to scholarly research.
$3,470,000
2021
3 years
OA.Works
To support the ‘Open Access Button’ project to help libraries improve users’ access to research articles.
$1,870,000
2020
4 years
Project Notify
To help scholarly communities organise peer-review of preprints and working papers through a not-for-profit, university-governed ecosystem that bypasses commercial publishers.
$4,000,000
2022
4 years
Next generation library publishing
To develop new, cost-effective and community-governed open-access publishing tools and services for authors, editors and readers.
$2,200,000
2019
3 years
OpenAlex: a free index for the world's research
To support the growth, development and institutional use of an open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, authors and institutions.
$7,500,000
2024
5 years
Search engine for open access scholarly content
To build and support a new, non-profit free search engine that will make it easy for the public to access peer-reviewed literature.
$850,000
2018
2 years
Tools to steer academic systems to open research
To provide tools and data which make open-access research easier to find and use and to help libraries and researchers make better decisions.
$4,500,000
2021
3 years
Redalyc + AmeliCA
To provide core support to Redalyc and AmeliCA to improve discoverability and open access to journals without author-fees (‘diamond OA’).
$3,600,000
2022
10 years
The Hyku Institutional Repository platform
To improve the Hyku Institutional Repository platform to drive the growth of ‘green’ open access to research publications through institutional repositories.
$1,000,000
2019
2 years
Growing the Wikidata and Wikibase contributor base
To support technical improvements around lexicographical data and the globalization of the contributor base for Wikibase.
$979,132
2019
3 years