Grants awarded

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 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.

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

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

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

To help Borderland (Fundacja Pogranicze) deliver its mission to support cross-border cultural and community exchanges.

For a pilot project to test remote sensing techniques and existing in-country data for documenting cultural heritage on the islands.

To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.