What’s Next for Scholarly Publishing? PW talks with John J. Regazzi

"If you are looking for an authoritative take on the history of the scholarly publishing business, there are few with more authority than John J. Regazzi. His career has spanned over four decades, including eight years as CEO of Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. After his retirement in 2005, Regazzi became dean of the college of information and computer science of Long Island University and professor and director of the Scholarly Communications and Information Innovation Lab at LIU, where he wrote his most recent book, Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker (Rowman & Littlefield), which traces the development of scholarly communications and the first scientific journals through the rapidly advancing digital age. The book comes at a fascinating point in scholarly publishing history, with the rise of open access. Regazzi talked with us about the shifting landscape of scholarly publishing ..."