"How Star helps to disseminate French e-theses; How ABES helps to develop Open Access" Raymond Bérard is currently Director of the Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education (ABES), which is in charge of the union catalog for French academic libraries. ABES is also involved in e-theses and develops new services to meet the expectations and information research practices of its users. He previously held the positions of Director of the French academic repository library, Marne-La-Vallée (2004-2005) and Dean of studies at the French National library school (ENSSIB, 2001-2004). Among his professional activities, Raymond Bérard presides IFLA’s Management and Marketing Section and the Information section of the French Standards authority (AFNOR)
