DEFF works to ensure that researchers, educators and students in educational institutions and universities have access to relevant information via user-friendly systems and guidance of high quality. DEFF contributes to an optimal exploitation of research-based information resources and to collaboration between library partners, joint development projects as well as the establishment of a technical infrastructure.

DEFF has three overall goals:

• The end users’ exploitation of electronic resources, both qualitatively and quantitatively, must be improved
• The collaboration between educational, academic and research libraries must be fortified and include new partners
• The results must be documented, disseminated and communicated to the public

The DEFF collaboration includes common development in those cases where collaboration yields a better result than the sum of local initiatives. This guarantees a better collective exploitation of the libraries’ resources.