Our mission is to be a leading provider of scientific information and services in Germany and abroad. We strategically position ourselves as an international service partner for science and research in order to promote science by offering innovative information services. This concept is reflected by our claim "Advancing Science".

Our aim is to support innovation and knowledge transfer in Germany and other countries.

We proactively meet the challenges of the international information market by strengthening our core business areas and further evolving from our core competencies.

Our unique selling proposition is to be a neutral platform which follows a dual strategy: providing an integrated offer of premium content and tools on the one hand, and developing e-Science solutions on the other hand.

 Our strategy strictly focuses on STN International and KnowEsis:

• STN International, an online service from scientists for scientists, offers the world's most important databases with quality-checked patent and research information as well as state-of-the-art retrieval, analysis, and visualization functions.
• KnowEsis, our e-Science solutions for supporting value-generating processes in science, significantly contribute to the discipline-independent information infrastructure. At present, our activities focus on hosting, long-term availability, and virtual research environments.