John B. Thompson at Lund University

Abstract

The Faculties of Humanities and Theology invited Professor John B. Thompson to a conference on scholarly publishing within humanities and social sciences April 26th 2006. His lecture was called Academic Publishing at the Crossroads. John B. Thompson, who is a very well known Cambridge sociologist and also one of the founders of Polity Press, has spent a few years to examine the transformation of academic and higher education publishing in Britain and the US. He was very surprised by the fact that colleagues within the academic world knew so little about the conditions for scholarly publishing and that so little research has been done in this field.