Arrived in 2014 at the University of Montpellier, she is Head of the Sciences and Techniques Unit of the Library and Documentation Department and in charge of the “Research Support” mission for the departement. She coordinated (in collaboration with the Research and Doctoral Studies Department) the implementation in 2017 of the HAL portal of the University of Montpellier and the creation of a dedicated assistance team, in charge of reporting references and depositing the full text of publications, as well as the animation of a network of referents in the laboratories. She is now working to expand the support services offered to researchers, mainly in the area of research data management. Laure Lefrançois began her career as a curator at the Bibliothèque nationale de France as head of department in charge of implementing digital services for the general public, especially teachers-researchers and researchers. She then worked at the Ministry of Defense where she created the department dedicated to libraries and piloted the implementation of a shared catalog