Paul Ayris
Director of University College London Library Services
Dr Ayris has been Director of UCL Library Services since 1997. He is also the UCL Copyright Officer.
Dr Ayris is the Vice-President of LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche). He is a member of the LIBER and SPARC Europe Boards and chairs the LIBER Conference Programme Committee for their Annual General Conferences. He also chairs the OAI Organizing Committee for the Cern Workshops on Scholarly Communication. He is a member of the DRIVER Advisory Board, of the JISC's Journals Working Group, of the SCONUL/CILIP Health Strategy Group, the CURL/SCONUL Joint Scholarly Communications Group, and the SHERPA Management Committee. He is also a member of the NSF-funded Blue Ribbon Task Force on economically-sustainable digital preservation.
He has a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History and publishes on English Reformation Studies.