Grants awarded

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

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

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 document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to publish the results through an online 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 create an online open-access database of heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites.

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

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.

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.

The Endangered Archives Programme gives grants to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration. The programme supports projects that cover rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

The Modern Endangered Archives Program gives grants to digitize endangered archival materials from the 20th and 21st centuries. The programme supports projects that digitize printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the mid-20th century onwards. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

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 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.

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 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 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 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