Grants awarded

To collate and digitize primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections and make them freely available online.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

To digitize fourteen medieval manuscripts in the collection of Trinity College Dublin and make the results freely available online.

Support towards a new professorial position in memory of Bridget Phillips at the University of Florida.

Core support for the work of the College.

To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.

Towards the costs of running the museum.

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

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.

Core support for the European Review of Books.

To improve discovery and availability of digital books via libraries, build a corpus of freely- or easily-accessible digital books; pilot and scale innovative models to negotiate rights to serve more books digitally; and identify more titles to make available digitally.

To support a collaborative grant programme to help stop overfishing, establish marine protected areas, and constrain offshore oil and gas development, to provide lasting benefits to coastal communities and the world’s oceans.

Towards a permanent endowment for the Wende Museum for collections care and acquisitions and general operations.

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

To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.

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 promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.

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

To complete the match fund for a newly established Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund which will oversee the Eternal Mongolia Project Finance for Permanence initiative.

To undertake the large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.