Asia Pacific University Institutional Repository (APres) is a digital collection of scholarly resources such as undergraduate final year projects, master’s thesis & doctoral dissertations, and publications authored by APU staff and faculty. The platform allows easy access to anyone to discover publicly available content. Faculty, staff, and students are required to login to access content that may not be publicly available. APU Library is responsible for archiving, establishing, collaborating, managing, maintaining and disseminating the content of it.

 

APres was developed from scratch by one of the CTI team, the platform was released on 27 December 2019 and still being updated constantly to deliver new features and smoother use. “Some of the challenges I faced were customizing APres to meet the user expectations and developing a dynamic, user-friendly, responsive, flexible as well as a thoroughly customizable system! “ Say Mahdiyar Shababi.

The platform grants new helpful features for both sides, with the ability to customize the platform in WordPress by the help of GravityForm, GravityView and etc.

Here are some of the APres options:

  • View items recently added to the repository.
  • Search the repository using a full range of fields.
  • Browse the items in the repository by subject.