FQS Newsletter 6/04

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

Dear All,

Today I would like to inform you about the following topics:

A) Loss of Our Colleague Angelika Birck
B) Articles, published in June 2004
C) Requests and comments from our readers
D) Conferences
E) Open Access News

All the best,

Katja Mruck
FQS-Editor

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A) LOSS OF OUR COLLEAGUE ANGELIKA BIRCK

Our author Angelika Birck has passed away. She died suddenly on June 7,
2004 at the age of 32. Her death moved all of us very deeply. She
dedicated her professional and personal efforts to victims of violence
and torture.

To FQS she contributed the text entitled "Laura's doctorate"
(http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03birck-e.htm)
under the section FQS Debates "Doing successful research in the social
sciences--Ethnography of the Career Politics of an Occupational Group"
[Vol. 4, No. 2 (May 2003)]. She described the text as "literary and
fictitious"--which it of course wasn't. It describes her experience in
details while trying to earn her doctorate in the bureaucratic jungle of
universities in two countries. When I learned about her troubles I
encouraged her to publish a literary account of her story in our FQS
Debate on ethnography in the social sciences. Now facing her sudden
death and short life span this account is even more meaningful. We are
glad and proud to have her as an author. 

Angelika Bircks's long-time life companion--Dinu Gherman--has set up a
web site in her memory:  http://python.net/~gherman/AngelikaBirck.html.

Franz Breuer on behalf of the Editorial Staff

B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2004

Andrea D. Buehrmann (Germany): Review Note, Alexander Bogner, Beate
Littig & Wolfgang Menz (Eds.) (2002). Das Experteninterview. Theorie,
Methode, Anwendung [The Expert Interview: Theory, Method and
Application]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-1-e.htm 

Dagmar Hoffmann (Germany): Review Note, Nathalie Iványi & Jo Reichertz
(Eds.) (2003). Liebe (wie) im Fernsehen. Eine wissenssoziologische
Analyse [Love (like) on Television. An Analysis Based on the Sociology
of Knowledge]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-8-e.htm 

Anja Naumann (Germany): Review Note, Reinhard Keil-Slawik & Michael
Kerres (Eds.) (2003). Wirkungen und Wirksamkeit neuer Medien in der
Bildung [The Impact and Effectiveness of New Media in Education]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-2-e.htm 

Eduardo Sarquis Soares (Brazil): Talking about Challenges of Being a
Teacher. Review Essay, Woff-Michael Roth (2002). Being and Becoming in
the Classroom 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-5-e.htm 

Wilhelm Schwendemann (Germany): Review Note, Arnulf Deppermann (2001).
Gespraeche analysieren. Eine Einfuehrung [Analyzing Conversations. An
Introduction]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-3-e.htm 

Volker Wedekind (South Africa): Review Note, Ardra L. Cole & J. Gary
Knowles (Eds.) (2001). Lives in Context: The Art of Life History
Research 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-4-e.htm 

C) REQUESTS AND COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS

Comment on "Evaluation and Adjudication of Research Proposals: Vagaries
and Politics of Funding"
(http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-02/3-02roth-e.htm) by
Wolff-Michael Roth
http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/36/90.html?1086627611 

D) CONFERENCES

6. - 7. April 2005, London South Bank University, UK: International
Conference "Whither Social Capital? Past, Present and Future"
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/families/Call_for_Papers.shtml (Call for Papers) 

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

E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

June SPARC Open Access Newsletter:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-04.htm 

New SPARC/ARL/ACRL Brochure on Open Access:
http://www.createchange.org/resources/OpenAccess.pdf (246 KB) 

Peter Suber: "Open Access Overview. Focusing on open access to
peer-reviewed research": 
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Australia wants to make government-funded research more accessible: "The
Government believes that it has a major policy interest in improving the
accessibility of research. It is therefore decided to pursue the agendas
of making research quality more apparent, and research results more
accessible, in parallel ?In terms of accessibility of research the NSCF
[National Scholarly Communications Forum] constituents will work with
international partners on a number of fronts especially to develop the
concept of 'public funding, public knowledge, public access'." (Open
Access News, posted by Peter Suber) 
http://www.humanities.org.au/NSCF/Press%20release.pdf (49 KB)

New journals from SciELO, a major source of Open Access literature from
Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain:
http://www.scielo.org/ 

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