China Institute of Science and Technology Information, Institute of Machinery Industry Information, Institute of Metallurgical Industry Information Standards, China Chemical Information Center), Library of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Library of China Academy of Medical Sciences and other service stations.

According to the needs of national science and technology development, collect, sort out and develop scientific and technological literature resources in the fields of science, engineering, agriculture and medicine, and provide scientific and technological literature information services for the whole country.

Its development goal is to become the authoritative collection and service center of scientific and technological literature information resources in China; Modern information technology application demonstration area; A window for communication with world-famous science and technology libraries.

Literature service is a major service item of NSTL. The specific contents include: literature retrieval, full-text provision, online full-text, catalogue browsing, catalogue inquiry, etc. Non-registered users can get free services except full-text provision, and registered users can also get full-text provision services.

The document retrieval column provides users with the query service of titles or abstracts of various scientific and technological documents. The types of documents involve periodicals, conference records, dissertations, scientific reports, patent standards and books, and the languages involve China, the West, Japanese and Russian. Provide general retrieval, advanced retrieval, periodical retrieval, classified retrieval, natural language retrieval and other retrieval methods.

Full-text service is an extended service based on literature retrieval. According to users' requirements, the full text is provided by letter, email and fax. This service is a fee-based service, which requires users to register and pay in advance.