Grants awarded

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

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

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

To provide core support to Redalyc and AmeliCA to improve discoverability and open access to journals without author-fees (‘diamond OA’).

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 accelerate research assessment reform by undertaking analysis and creating tools and resources to help institutions in the United States and Europe.

To support the ‘Open Access Button’ project to help libraries improve users’ access to research articles.

To develop new, cost-effective and community-governed open-access publishing tools and services for authors, editors and readers.

To improve the Hyku Institutional Repository platform to drive the growth of ‘green’ open access to research publications through institutional repositories.

To support technical improvements around lexicographical data and the globalization of the contributor base for Wikibase.

To build and support a new, non-profit free search engine that will make it easy for the public to access peer-reviewed literature.