Grants awarded

To support Public.Resource.Org's work to make edicts of government freely available online.

To support librarians, policymakers, and community leaders to get fair access to digital content and services.

To establish a grant programme to fund networks that support open access to research.

To preserve graduate theses and dissertations from thousands of institutions and make them freely available online.

To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.

Towards a three year membership

To improve discovery and availability of digital books via libraries, build a corpus of freely- or easily-accessible digital books; pilot and scale innovative models to negotiate rights to serve more books digitally; and identify more titles to make available digitally.

To support the growth, development and institutional use of an open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, authors and institutions.

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

To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

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

To make German government documents and unfairly restricted information freely available online.

To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

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

To make in-copyright books more widely available online via NYPL’s Digital Research Books platform.

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