Grants awarded

To support the growth, development and institutional use of an open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, authors and institutions.

For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.

To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States.

To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

To develop services and resources to support open-access book publishing by small-to-medium-sized publishers, non-profits and scholarly libraries.

To make German government documents and unfairly restricted information freely available online.

To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

Towards a matched endowment to support open-access programmes at MIT Press, including open monographs, open journals and open publishing services.

To make in-copyright books more widely available online via NYPL’s Digital Research Books platform.

To help scholarly communities organise peer-review of preprints and working papers through a not-for-profit, university-governed ecosystem that bypasses commercial publishers.

To provide core support to Redalyc and AmeliCA to improve discoverability and open access to journals without author-fees (‘diamond OA’).

To develop policies and legal strategies to expand and strengthen the public domain, ensuring that everyone can always freely reuse public domain content.

To enable Creative Commons, EIFL and SPARC to build a global campaign to promote the open sharing of climate and biodiversity research.

To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.

To support work to extract taxonomic data from scientific publications and make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and to promote the resulting repository as the standard in the taxonomic community.

To support Open Syllabus in its mission to gather and analyse academic syllabi and make this information freely available online.

To set up and run a prize programme for authors and publishers of open access academic books.

To support open access initiatives within or outside MIT, as identified by the MIT Press Director.