The Strategic Plan covering the period 2011-2015 is available: 
Download: APA Strategic Plan 2011-2015.
- to have permanent access regarded as part of Europe’s core scientific e-infrastructure
- to have permanent access encouraged and funded by those who commission research within Europe and by those who perform research within the APA
- to have standards and services developed and sanctioned by the Alliance utilized across Europe
- to expand our membership to provide adequate representation, ‘political weight’ and adequate take-up
- to develop a sound, representative and sustainable Alliance.to ensure that policies on data preservation and access are harmonized across all stakeholders
- to ensure there is adequate training for data producers, re-users and those looking after the data
The overall mechanism for achieving the plan will be engagement with the appropriate research communities on one hand and the policymakers/funders on the other reaching for – by progressive consensus – a moderated canonical solution brokered by APA. The APA projects will play an important role.
The initial plan, for 2006-2010, was produced 5 years ago. 
Download: Strategic Action Programme 2006-2010.
This set out the need for an organisation, as well as details of a research programme for digital preservation, and a strategy to influence the development of an infrastructure for digital preservation of the records of science. From this the APA was formed.
