Grants awarded

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 increase the online accessibility of conservation research publications.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

To digitize 1,500 MIT Press titles and make them freely available online.

To create high quality EPUB files of scanned university press books, to enhance the reader experience.

To improve and promote best practices for the long-term preservation of materials stored on tape and disk.

To digitize more than 15,000 volumes of published monographs from university libraries and make them available via Internet Archive’s controlled digital lending platform.

To digitize two collections from the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections; the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library’s signature holdings, and make the results freely available online.

To develop services and resources to support open-access book publishing by small-to-medium-sized publishers, non-profits and scholarly libraries.

To digitize the Society’s collections and make them freely available online.

Towards a matched endowment to support open-access programmes at MIT Press, including open monographs, open journals and open publishing services.

To support an initiative to make educational materials from MIT’s undergraduate- and graduate-level courses freely available online.

To support an initiative to make educational materials from MIT’s undergraduate- and graduate-level courses freely available online.

To develop a strategy and business plan for converting MIT Press monograph publishing to open access, and provide a transition fund to support open access monographs at the MIT Press while it implements the changes.

To support open access initiatives within or outside MIT, as identified by the MIT Press Director.

To bring together stakeholders from universities, funding agencies, societies, foundations and industry to discuss the effectiveness of current incentives for adopting Open Science practices.

To support academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.

To develop free, open-source tools to help libraries find open-access copies of publications.

To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States and support academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.

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