Grants awarded

To provide interest-free micro-loans to rebuild homes and support businesses and agriculture in areas impacted by the floods in Pakistan.

To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it freely available online to users from African institutions.

To support the Open Syllabus Project in building the first large-scale online database of titles of works used in millions of university course syllabi.

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

To extend the reach of the Council’s fellowship programme.

To provide a lead gift for a fellowship scheme in Chinese or Comparative Literature.

To accelerate research assessment reform by undertaking analysis and creating tools and resources to help institutions in the United States and Europe.

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

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 provide access to online materials to communities with no internet access.

To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.

To assess the need for, and improve engagement with, digital resources in African universities.

To support the Authors Alliance to represent the interests of academics and other authors whose primary motivation is to disseminate knowledge.

To develop training resources for academic authors who want to publish open access.

To support the Authors Alliance to represent the interests of academics and other authors whose primary motivation is to disseminate knowledge.

Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network’s work.

Towards a new building for student accommodations.

Towards the final settlement of legal costs incurred by The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Limited in the campaign to secure public access to the Mountbatten Archive held by the University of Southampton.

To support the Lumen database, which collects and analyses legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials.

To support BirdLife partners in high-biodiversity countries and to help them protect priority species and habitats.