About APO

APO wins Hitwise Top 10 Award!

5 March 2010

From July to December 2009 www.apo.org.au ranked No. 9 based on market share of visits among all Australian websites in the Hitwise Lifestyle - Politics industry. Thank you to all our readers for this confirmation of APO's value to Australian public policy research. We look forward to working with you in 2010 as we continue to provide great content, improve the technology and make new partnerships.

APO Editors: Penelope Aitken, Peter Browne and Amanda Lawrence

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About APO

Australian Policy Online offers easy access to much of the best Australian social, economic, cultural and political research available online.

APO is a news service and library specialising in Australian public policy reports and articles from academic research centres, think tanks, government and non-government organisations. The site features opinion and commentary pieces, video, audio and web resources focused on the policy issues facing Australia.

APO also publishes notices about events, submissions, jobs and study options - if you would like to know more about advertising on APO or to place an advertisement click here.

The website and news service are considered essential reading for anyone interested in public policy issues in Australia. APO receives around 500,000 visits each year and has over 10,000 subscribers to our Weekly Briefing newsletter. To subscribe to the newsletter click here.

The APO website was upgraded to a new content management system in May 2009. Read more about the changes here.

PARTNERS AND MEMBER ORGANISATIONS

APO is edited by a small team based at the Institute for Social Research in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology. Our key partners are the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, the Australian Institute for Social Research at the University of Adelaide, the  Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of New South Wales, the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University.

Membership of APO is open to Australian academic centres and organisations publishing scholarly research freely available online. Currently APO has over 170 centres and institutes around Australia. If your organisation is interested in becoming a member please email the editors with details about your organisation and a website address for evaluation. For a full list of APO sponsors, partners and members visit our Members page.

Funding provided by the Australian Research Council and the Swinburne University Strategic Initiative Program has been crucial to the development and ongoing maintenance and editing of the site. More recently organisations have begun sponsoring particular topics areas: support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) ensures we provide extensive coverage of the lastest news and research on the creative industries, along with a specialist weekly email newsletter on this topic. Coverage fo research relating to Asia and the Pacific is supported by the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies.

Please email admin@apo.org.au if you would like to discuss sponsorship opportunities at Australian Policy Online.

ABOUT THE SITE

Reports and other new material can be browsed within 10 broad subject areas - Creative Economy, Economics, Education, Environment and Planning, Health, Indigenous, International, Justice, Politics and Social Policy - along with over 100 subtopic categories.  For a full list of all topics and their subtopics see the A-Z page. Our team of guest writers and columnists weigh in on issues of the day within the pages of the Commentary section and on our sister site Inside Story.

Email subscriptions

To receive notice of new material on APO, as well as job openings, events, and other notices from Australia's public policy research community, join over 10,000 people in subscribing to the Weekly Briefing, our free weekly email newsletter. Choose to recieve the Weekly Briefing or get updates as soon as major reports are published. Options are available to tailor the content so you only receive the topics of interest to you.

RSS

Alternatively you can subscribe to RSS feeds to monitor all the latest content added to the site. Feeds are also available for each topic area of the website. Simply copy the url of the topic area and add  /feed to the end of the link - then paste it into your feed reader. EG. apo.org.au/economics/feed

What is RSS? RSS feeds allows you to subscribe and read the content in RSS newsreader software. Whenever the web page is updated your newsreader will automatically display the new item. There are many news readers available and many are free – even your Internet explorer browser includes a feedreader. Look for the feed icon in the address bar. Some news readers are programs you download and install on your computer and others are web-based services that you access with your web browser such Google Reader and Bloglines. For a full list of readers see the DMOZ Open Directory Project.

APO Reader Survey results

In September and October 2007, we asked the readers of Australian Policy Online, about their experiences with both the website and our weekly newsletter and for your opinions and suggestions on how APO could be improved. For a write-up of the results click here.