Registering for contributing to this web site:

If your organisation is a member of the APA, or a member of one of the consortia which are themselves part of the APA, you can register as a user of this web site.

This will enable you to contribute articles and other information, and access information meant for APA members.

To register please email director[at]alliancepermanentaccess.org, providing your name and contact details, the name of your organisation and, if it is not itself a member of the APA directly, then please state to which of the APA participant membership organisations it belongs.

The Alliance for Permanent Access

Digital technology nowadays touches upon almost every aspect of our daily lives. This dependence is particularly critical in our professional activities where the management of digital information is central to the digital economy and emerging knowledge society. In scholarly communications particularly, digital data and information play a central role. Scientific advancement is unimaginable without easy and ubiquitous access to the digital scientific record.

The Alliance for Permanent Access brings together a number of major European research laboratories, research funders, and research support organisations such as national libraries and publishers, to create a shared vision and framework for a sustainable digital information infrastructure providing permanent access to scientific information.

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The mission

The mission of APA is to enable permanent access to scholarly information – that is to the digital store of research data, information and knowledge.
Digital preservation is too big an issue for individual institutions, sectors, disciplines or even countries to address on their own, for the research itself has become an international enterprise. To deal with the challenge, European as well as global collaboration is needed involving all stakeholders from different communities.

What we do

APA concentrates its activities on the most pressing issues relevant to the creation of a sustainable science data e-infrastructure. The focus is on preservation and permanent access and (re-)use. The major activities are:

• Aligning and enhancing permanent information infrastructures in Europe
• Networking and building partnerships with relevant stakeholders
• Joint advocacy and representation
• Increasing impact and achieving critical-mass

Contact

For further information about how to join us please contact:
Alliance for Permanent Access
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5 2595 BE The Hague
The Netherlands
t: +44 7770 326 304 or +44 1935 872 660 (UK office)
e: director[at]alliancepermanentaccess.org (Director )