Grants awarded

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

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

To collect and digitize at-risk material related to the history of science in South Asia since the early 19th century, and to make the results freely available online, along with a prototype tool for interpretation and access, and public annotation of archival material.

To provide access to online materials to communities with no internet access.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

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

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

To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina’s Iberá Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through its fiscal sponsor re:wild.

Towards the costs of running the museum.

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

To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and make them freely available online.

Towards the core costs of the Protected Planet platform

Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network’s work.

To help more of the world’s public art galleries, libraries, archives and museums make their collections data and images freely available under Creative Commons licences or waivers.

To provide tools and data which make open-access research easier to find and use and to help libraries and researchers make better decisions.

To improve funding and resourcing for open technology and systems which underpin access to scholarly research.

To assess the scientific foundation for agricultural soil carbon credits.