Great expectations surround the DEFF steering committee’s strategy work. The ambition is constantly to develop and target more DEFF services and spread these to an ever increasing volume of users, including potential users like small and medium-sized businesses as well as entrepreneurs. The DEFF libraries already cover most of the future Danish work force. This requires larger budgets and political goodwill, but if the mission succeeds improvement and consolidation of the infrastructure, which is a primary DEFF task, can be continually developed.

The DEFF programme groups’ mandate expires by the end of 2010. This means that from now on the steering committee and the secretariat have to produce the outlines for a ’new’ DEFF. In terms of licenses focus will continue to be directed at development and implementation of increased and improved IT-based service. This applies both to the license helpdesk, the interface for the license administration database and to the accounts in connection with invoicing. Work will likewise start on the construction of a new homepage for DEFF, which is expected to facilitate web project applications and general web service and make both more user-friendly.

DEFF’s strategic ambition is to get ever more close to the study process, including working more with lifelong learning, e-learning and information literacy. E-science and primary data are also going to be important focus areas.