Grants awarded

To collect, preserve and make available online endangered cultural artefacts related to the contemporary (~200 years) history of science in South Asia. It will also develop a prototype tool for interpretation and access through linked open data and public annotation of archival material

Advancing open access

To support the operations of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI), so that it can continue to provide evidence-based advice to inform international policy concerning the management and conservation of the deep ocean.

To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina's Ibera Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through their fiscal sponsor re:wild

To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation

To support Miriam Rothschild scholars to participate in the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership.

To survey and digitize some of the most important collections of palm-leaf manuscripts in the Thrissur and Ernakulam districts, Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections. These will be made available online in an open-access repository

To produce an integrated public access database for the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia.

To digitize Dalit community and family archives in India, and to make these materials available in an open-access digital archive

To digitize and publish online more of the remaining manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai beyond the Arabic and Syriac manuscripts digitized in phase I, as well as newly discovered palimpsests

Support for Blue Ventures’ core operations.

To provide core support to re:wild

To provide Global Canopy with core support to target the market forces destroying nature.

To continue advancing and scaling up rewilding across Europe through the development of innovative rewilding models, starting a new initiative to accelerate wildlife comeback in Europe.

To provide Legacy Landscapes Fund with match funding for Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Leuser Ecosystem bid in Sumatra, Indonesia.

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

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

To develop policies and legal strategies to expand and strengthen the public domain, ensuring that everyone can always freely reuse public domain content. The project will also aim to develop user rights (of both individual and institutional users) to access and share content with legal clarity for the beneficiaries of exceptions and limitations.

To continue to build a public access repository of species descriptions and images ‘liberated’ from in-copyright journal articles, and to automate this process of liberation in future by integrating it into publishers’ systems.

To support the Environmental Justice Foundation's ocean campaign to end illegal fishing and protect marine biodiversity