NFAIS members successfully combine human thought and judgment with the power of technical solutions. This is how the organization describes its self-image. The members of this professional association of the international industry, which was founded in 1958, are companies and organizations which collect, organize and facilitate access to the content for sophisticated computer-based information services.

With its membership drawn traditionally from the information departments of scientific professional associations and specialist publishers for science, today the NFAIS membership is composed of information producers and technology providers such as publishing houses, technical information centers, national libraries and software producers.