FQS Newsletter 10/03

[Katja Mruck <mruck@zedat.fu-berlin.de>]

Dear All,

Today I would like to inform you about texts, published in October and
available online. Additionally, you will find some short information
about the "Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies," &
some links concerning the open access movement.

Enjoy reading!
Katja Mruck

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A) PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 2003

Johannes Angermueller (Germany): Review Note, Rainer Diaz-Bone (2002).
Kulturwelt, Diskurs und Lebensstil. Kommunikationsstrukturen,
Arbeitslaeufe, Wissensmanagement [Cultural World, Discourse and Life
Style. Communicative Structures, Work Flows, Management of Knowledge]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-angermueller-e.htm 

Una Dirks (Germany): Chances and Obstacles of an "Understanding
Explaning" Illustrated by Linguistic and Cultural Studies' Approaches to
Auto-/Biographies. Review Essay, Rita Franceschini (Ed.) (2001).
Biographie und Interkulturalitaet. Diskurs und Lebenspraxis [Biography
and Multiculturalism. Discourse and Life Styles]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-dirks-e.htm

Nicola Doering (Germany): Review Note, Oliver Maerker & Matthias Trénel
Eds.) (2003). Online-Mediation. Neue Medien in der Konfliktvermittlung -
mit Beispielen aus Politik und Wirtschaft [Online-Mediation. New Media
in Conflict Resolution-with Examples from Politics and Industry]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-doering-e.htm

Barney G. Glaser (USA): Naturalist Inquiry and Grounded Theory
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04glaser-e.htm

Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Autobiography as Scientific Text: A
Dialectical Approach to the Role of Experience. Review Essay, Harry F.
Wolcott (2002). Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-roth-e.htm

Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany): Review Note, Ronald Hitzler, Thomas
Bucher & Arne Niederbacher (2001). Leben in Szenen. Formen jugendlicher
Vergemeinschaftung heute [Living in Scenes. Forms of Youth Communities]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-spetsmann-e.htm 

B) BERLIN PROGRAM FOR ADVANCED GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES

The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, established
in 1986 at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and in the United States at the
Social Science Research Council, promotes a new generation of young
North American scholars with specialized knowledge of modern and
contemporary German and European affairs. The Program supports
anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and all
scholars in germane social science and cultural studies fields,
including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century.
Fellowships are awarded for doctoral dissertation field research as well
as postdoctoral research leading to completion of a monograph. The
Program offers a stimulating academic environment that integrates
research opportunities with intellectual and cultural interaction. An
essential part of the Program is the bi-weekly seminar, conducted in
German, which brings together the North American fellows and leading
German scholars. Fellows have access to Berlin's broader intellectual
community and extensive libraries. For complete information and to
download an application, go to http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/berlin/
or contact berlin@ssrc.org. The deadline is December 1, 2003.

C) OPEN ACCESS LINKS:

As you know, FQS signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Currently,
significant effort takes place to bring this initiative--which
originated in the sciences--also to the humanities. So today we like to
provide some links to in-depth information:

The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ 

What does BOAI mean by "open access"?
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#openaccess

The Research-Impact Cycle
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving.htm

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and
Humanities 
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlin_declaration.pdf

Directory of Open Access Journals 
http://www.doaj.org/ 

Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

Ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed
research literature 
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html 
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html 

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