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Academic Preservation Trust

Preserving the Scholarly and Cultural Record

About Us
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Welcome to APTrust

The Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) is committed to the creation and management of a sustainable repository for digital preservation. What makes what we do truly sustainable is our collaborative culture and ongoing collective consideration of the challenges that digital stewardship presents.

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Become a Member

Want to learn more about joining us as we work to ensure our mission of preserving the scholarly and cultural record? APTrust offers high levels of confidence in the preservation of digital content. From the start, an institution that places digital content in APTrust will be able to use our capabilities to recover that content in the event it is lost from the local institutional environment.

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As our member institutions combine their expertise and resources to accomplish a common mission, together they will develop scalable solutions, new functionalities, and enriched services that will be offered broadly through APTrust.

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