Grants awarded

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

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.

Towards construction costs for the Wende Museum’s international centre for digitization and conservation of at-risk post-war archives.

To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge MPhil in Conservation Leadership.

To provide training for people working in conservation in Asia and Central and South America.

Core support for Blue Ventures’ to help it achieve its mission to rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities.

To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.

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

To digitize more of the remaining manuscripts of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, including newly discovered palimpsests, and make the results freely available online.

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

To digitize Dalit community and family archives in India and make these materials freely available online.

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

To support a campaign to end illegal fishing and protect marine biodiversity.

To survey and digitize some of the most important collections of palm-leaf manuscripts in the Thrissur and Ernakulam districts in Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections and to make the results freely available online.

To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.