An APO Collection provides a flexible, continuously maintained repository for your organisation’s research and evidence—ensuring resources remain visible, relevant and easy to navigate over time. 

It also provides a cost-effective alternative to building and maintaining your own platform, supported by APO’s infrastructure, audience and curation capability. 

APO Collections make high-value research visible, accessible and usable, providing a structured, low-burden way to: 

For organisations, this enables: 

• Greater visibility — your evidence is surfaced to policymakers, practitioners and researchers.  

• Stronger credibility — association with a trusted national repository signals quality and public value.  

• Expanded reach — access to audiences beyond your existing networks.  

• Long-term access — resources remain available, organised and usable over time.  

• Adaptability — collections can evolve to reflect new priorities, projects or areas of focus.  

• Reduced burden — APO manages hosting, curation, metadata and ongoing maintenance. 

What Makes This Different

This is not: 

• A static repository or document library  

• A one-off publication or archive  

• A platform requiring internal resourcing to maintain 

It is: 

• Continuously curated and updated by information management  
  experts  

• Designed for usability, not just storage  

• Embedded within a trusted, national evidence platform  

• Connected to an established audience of policymakers,  
  practitioners and researchers 

• Focused on making evidence accessible and used 

Types of Collections

There are 3 types of collections.

Featured Collections
A Featured Collection is a tailored collection of policy, research, evaluation, literature reviews, open access journal articles, guides and tools sourced, added and curated by APO Editors to meet the needs of our partner and their community. The Collection benefits from APO’s state-of-the-art information architecture, enabling users to browse and explore the Collection and search APO’s 20-year archive for any resource they need. 

Discovery Collections
Discovery Collections are smaller, automatically updated collections that highlight key topics on APO. They bring together resources that are already in APO, and whenever new items are added that match the relevant subject terms, they are instantly included in the Discovery Collection. They offer a simple way to showcase important themes or priority areas without the level of curation involved in a Featured Collection.

Archive Collections
Archive Collections are legacy collections that preserve historically significant policy and research materials. They provide a stable home for resources such as conference papers and project outputs when research projects conclude—particularly material that may not otherwise be widely available—supporting institutional memory, retrospective analysis and the ability to build on existing evidence over time.

Explore APO collections below.

Interested in Starting a Collection?

Please contact us for further information. We look forward to hearing from you.