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.

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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