DEFF

DEFF is a co-operative organisation for Danish libraries within higher education & research with the vision that researchers, lecturers and students have access to all relevant information via user-friendly systems and high-quality guidance. All aspects of researchers’ and students’ work with information resources are thereby supported at the highest international level.

It is DEFF’s mission to contribute to an optimal exploitation of research-based information resources. This happens through co-operation between library partners, common development projects and the establishment of a technical infrastructure with the objectives to make:

• Common development in cases where co-operation is more beneficial than the sum of local initiatives, resulting in better collective exploitation of the libraries’ resources
• Further development of common network of information resources
• Collective mediation of research libraries’ information resources to the public

DEFF’s target groups are mostly serviced directly through the institutions that participate in DEFF and via common services when appropriate.

With this in mind DEFF Steering committee has defined three overall objectives in the strategy:

• The end-user’s exploitation of electronic resources has improved and become more extensive
• Co-operation between the research libraries is intensified and includes new strategic partnerships
• The results are documented, mediated and promoted. Research and research results are know to the public.