Grants awarded

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

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

To digitize Yiddish books and make them freely available online.

To support the production of three scholarly books and make them freely available online.

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

To support Open Syllabus in its mission to gather and analyse academic syllabi and make this information freely available online.

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

To provide match funding for the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project to increase the number of open-access scholarly books.

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 develop technology, policies and partnerships that will help to make more scholarly books freely available for researchers online.

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

To help digitize 23,000 books from NYU Library’s Arabic collections and make them freely available online.

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.