FQS Newsletter 7/04

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

Dear All,

Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news:

A) Articles, published in July 2004
B) Requests and comments from our readers
C) Conferences
D) Open Access News

Wishing you a wonderful summer!

Katja Mruck
FQS-Editor

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A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN JULY 2004

Stefan Gradmann, Katja Mruck & Maximilian Stempfhuber (Germany):
Refining the Semantics of Open Access
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-9-e.htm 

Andreas Klaerner (Germany): Review Note, Sylvia Keim (2003). "So richtig
deutsch wird man nie sein ..." -- Junge Migrantinnen und Migranten in
Deutschland. Zwischen Integration und Ausgrenzung ["You Will Never Be
Truly German ... "--Young Migrants in Germany. Between Integration and
Exclusion]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-13-e.htm 

Brian Roberts (UK): Political Activism and Narrative Analysis: The
Biographical Template and The Meat Pot
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-10-e.htm 

Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Cognitive Phenomenology: Marriage of
Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-12-e.htm 

Mike Steffen Schaefer (Germany): Review Note: Andreas Loesch (2001).
Genomprojekt und Moderne. Soziologische Analysen des bioethischen
Diskurses [Genome Project and Modernity. Sociological Analyses of the
Bioethical Discourse]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-15-e.htm 


B) REQUESTS AND COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS

Comment on "Grounded Theory: The Sound of Silence" 
by Andrew Campbell, Sunday, June 27, 2004
http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/36/14.html?1088320482

Comment on Simmons & Gregory: "Grounded Action: Achieving Optimal and
Sustainable Change"
(http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-03/3-03simmonsgregory-e.htm) 
by Heiner Legewie, Thusday, July 1, 2004
http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/36/91.html?1088676961  


C) CONFERENCES

The Program of the conference "The State of the Art of Qualitative
Social Research in Europe", taking place on September 9th and 10th 2004
at the Technical University of Berlin, is available online.
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/ESA_Workshop_Program.pdf

On April 18 - 22 2005, the 19th International Conference "Learning
Organization in a Learning World" is taking place in Bangkok, Thailand.
http://www.kmutt.ac.th/ICLORD2005/index.htm 

See
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm
for additional Conference Announcements.


D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

June 27 2004 has been the 10th anniversary of "Scholarly Journals at the
Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing. An Internet
Discussion about Scientific and Scholarly Journals and Their Future" by
Stevan Harnad, which was first posted June 27 1994. 
http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/sub01.html 

The July SPARC Open Access Newsletter is available online; see: 
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/07-02-04.htm. Especially
imortant news: 
"(US) The US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee
recommends that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide free
public access to research articles resulting from NIH-funded research."
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_07_11_fosblogarchive.html#a108990349491867573 
"(UK) The UK Government Science and Technology Committee's recommends
that all UK higher education institutions establish institutional
repositories on which their published output can be stored and from
which it can be read, free of charge, online."
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm 
 
A new open-access journal -- Psycho-Social-Medicine (p-s-m) -- was
started on 1 July 2004 as the first specialty journal on the German
Medical Science platform. It is edited on an interdisciplinary level by
ten German scientific societies from the areas of behavioral medicine,
medical psychology and sociology, psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine,
and psychotherapy. 
http://www.egms.de/en/journals/psm/index.shtml

Another open-access journal, eventually interesting for some of you is
"eCOMMUNITY: International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction".
http://www.ecommunity-journal.com/journal.php

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