FQS Newsletter 3/04

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

Dear All,

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

A) The German Research Foundation continues funding FQS
B) Articles, published in February and March 2004
C) Open Access News

All the best,

Katja Mruck
FQS-Editor

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A) THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION CONTINUES FUNDING FQS

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), the
central, self-governing research organization in Germany, decided to
continue funding FQS. The new project will start in May 2005,
cooperatively organized by the Freie Universitaet Berlin
(http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/), the national Social Science Information
Centre (http://www.gesis.org/en/iz/index.htm), and German Academic
Publishers (http://www.gap-c.de). We will inform you soon about the
project and also about some technological improvements, concerning the
peer review and publishing process for your journal.

B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH 2004

Rod Gerber (Australia): Review Note, Will van den Hoonaard (Ed.) (2002).
Walking the Tightrope: Ethical Issues for Qualitative Researchers
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-04/2-04review-gerber-e.htm

Shoshana Berenzon Gorn & Emily Ito Sugiyama (Mexico): Between
Traditional and Scientific Medicine: A Research Strategy for the Study
of the Pathways to Treatment Followed by a Group of Mexican Patients
with Emotional Disorders
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-04/2-04berenzonito-e.htm

Stefanie Ernst (Germany): Applied Methodical Mixture? Group Discussions
and Paper & Pencil Interviews as a Preliminary Study in the Evaluation
of Higher Education
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-04/2-04ernst-e.htm

Barney G. Glaser (USA) with the assistance of Judith Holton (Canada):
Remodeling Grounded Theory
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-04/2-04glaser-e.htm

Carol L. Langer & Rich Furman (USA): Exploring Identity and
Assimilation: Research and Interpretive Poems
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-04/2-04langerfurman-e.htm

Michelle K. McGinn & Sandra L. Bosacki (Canada): Research Ethics and
Practitioners: Concerns and Strategies for Novice Researchers Engaged in
Graduate Education
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-04/2-04mcginnbosacki-e.htm

Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Qualitative Research and Ethics
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-04/2-04roth2-e.htm

Mike Steffen Schaefer (Germany): Review Note, Martin Endress (2002).
"Vertrauen" ["Trust"]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-04/2-04review-schaefer-e.htm

Jan Schmidt (Germany): Review Note, Joachim R. Hoeflich (2003). Mensch,
Computer und Kommunikation. Theoretische Verortungen und empirische
Befunde [Man, Computer, Communication. Theoretical Positions and
Empirical Findings]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-04/2-04review-schmidt-e.htm

C) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

On January 30, the OECD published a statement, supporting open access:
for a short summary see "OECD Ministers Support Open Access for Publicly
Funded Research Data," Barbara Quint, Information Today, February 9th
2004: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040209-2.shtml

Since February, information about PLoS Medicine, the 2nd open-access
journal, edited by Public Library of Science, is available online:
http://www.plos.org/medicine/

In his contribution "India's march towards open access," published in
SciDev.Net, March 5th 2004, Subbiah Arunachalam discusses the advantages
of open access for Indian colleagues:
http://www.scidev.net/quickguides/index.cfm?fuseaction=qguideReadItem&type=3&itemid=243&language=1&qguideid=4

On March 16, representatives from leading North-American not-for-profit
medical/scientific societies and publishers have announced their
commitment to providing free access and wide dissemination of published
research findings; see http://www.dcprinciples.org/ 

In the evidence presented to the British House of Commons Science and
Technology Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publications, BioMed
Central responded to some of the most prevalent and most misleading
anti-Open Access arguments; see
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/myths.pdf

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