As described in the National Budget, the Danish Agency for Libraries and Media is responsible for the DEFF secretariat. The aim has been to establish a close connection between the Agency's overall initiatives and the work within DEFF, and it is therefore the Agency's deputy director, Bo Öhrström who has the day-to-day responsibility for DEFF. The secretariat's fields of responsibility include administration of licenses, projects, homepage as well as servicing the steering committee and the coordination committee.

The secretariat comprises eight members of staff, whose salaries are paid by DEFF: The head of secretariat, a secretary, three members of staff working primarily with licenses and three working primarily with national infrastructure and subject portals. The head of secretariat and the secretary work primarily with financial matters, administration, and service to the steering committee and project management.

Furthermore, one of the Agency's consultants is permanently attached to the secretariat, working primarily with electronic publishing, digitisation, e-learning and library-IT. The Agency's lawyer assists in contractual negotiations and deals with legal issues, while the Agency's communication unit handles DEFF's communication activities.

The secretariat's more technical tasks included the extension of DEFNet (access to journals) to more institutions, coordination of the migration of subject portals to common software and operating platform.

The DEFF secretariat or members of the staff can be contacted using the following addresses/e-mail:

Denmark's Electronic Research Library
Danish Agency for Libraries and Media
H.C. Andersens Boulevard 2
DK-1553 Copenhagen V

Tel.: +45 33 73 33 73
Fax: +45 33 73 33 72
deff@bibliotekogmedier.dk
www.deff.dk

Responsible for DEFF
Deputy director Bo Öhrström, boe@bibliotekogmedier.dk

Administration
Head of secretariat René Olesen, rol@bibliotekogmedier.dk