Dear All, Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news: A) Articles, Published in FQS in August 2006 B) Conferences and Workshops C) Links D) Open Access News Enjoy reading! Katja Mruck ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN AUGUST 2006 Michael Agar (USA): An Ethnography By Any Other Name … http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-36-e.htmChristopher Emdin (USA): Beyond Coteaching: Power Dynamics, Cosmopolitanism and the Psychoanalytic Dimension
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-27-e.htmBirgit Griese (Germany): Werner Fuchs-Heinritz (2005). Biographische Forschung. Eine Einfuehrung in Praxis und Methoden [Biographical Research: An Introduction to Practical and Methodical Basics]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-26-e.htmNorbert Groeben (Germany): Are There Ways out of the Self-inflicted Irrelevance of the Qualitative Off-stream?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-34-e.htmLena Heine (Germany): Strategy Use and Think-aloud Protocols: How L2-Learners Process Text Comprehension Tasks in a Foreign Language. Review Essay: Nicola Wuerffel (2006). Strategiengebrauch bei Aufgabenbearbeitungen in internetgestuetztem Selbstlernmaterial [The Application of Strategies in the Processing of Internet-based Self-study Tasks]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-30-e.htmRaymond Opdenakker (The Netherlands): Advantages and Disadvantages of Four Interview Techniques in Qualitative Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-11-e.htmWolff-Michael Roth (Canada): But Does "Ethnography By Any Other Name" Really Promote Real Ethnography?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-37-e.htmDirk vom Lehn (UK): Joerg Struebing (2005). Pragmatistische Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. Theorie und Methode [Pragmatist Science and Technology Research: Theory and Method]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-24-e.htm B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 4-6 September, Bournemouth University, UK 6th Qualitative Research Conference in Health and Social Care 2006 http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/qrc06.html 4-6 September, Cardiff University, UKESA Qualitative Methods Research Network: third mid-term conference "Advances in Qualitative Research Practice"
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/qualiti/ESA/index.html 7-8 September, Bournemouth University, UKTwo-Day Masterclass "The Dialogal Research Approach: The Power of Collaboration and Conversation" by Professor Steen Halling
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/qrchalling.html 28 September, Museum of London, UKOne-day conference "Qualitative Archiving and Data Sharing Scheme (QUADS) Showcase Day"
http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/news/eventdetail.asp?ID=158823-24 February 2007, Center for Urban Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania, USA 28th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum "Ethnography and Education in Trying Times"
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php 17-19 May 2007, University of St. Thomas, New Brunswick, CanadaThe 24th Canadian INTERNATIONAL Qualitative & Ethnographic Research Conference "Towards New Heights" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/IQER.pdf (PDF file, 113 KB)
See http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm (English) and http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-d.htm (German) for additional Conference Announcements.
C) LINKS ** Ann Lewins and Christina Silver: CAQDAS Comparison, Version 5 http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk** Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies: Request for Research Proposals
The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to one-year of research support at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century. The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students who have achieved ABD status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian Ph.D.s who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. The Berlin Program is based at, funded and administered by the Freie Universitaet Berlin. The program's publicity and selection process is organized in cooperation with the German Studies Association (GSA).
Deadline: December 1, 2006, For more complete information and an application form, visit http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/ or send an e-mail to bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de
** New web site of the European Sociology Students' Association http://www.essa-sociology.org/ ** Alfred Schutz Archive http://www.waseda.jp/Schutz/AlfredEng.htm D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS August SPARC Open Access Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-02-06.htm The UK funding body the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has released its policy on open access archivinghttp://www.nerc.ac.uk/aboutus/access/ (see also the RCUK position on issue of improved access to research outputs at http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/)
Conferences 14-16 September, Columbia Hall, Berlin, Germany International Conference "Wizards of OS 4: Information Freedom Rules" http://wizards-of-os.org/ 18-20 October, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/ 21-22 November, Hilton Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2nd International Digital Curation Conference http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2006/ 22-24 January 2007, Heidelberg, Germany APE 2007: Innovation & Publishinghttp://www.ape2007.eu/ (see http://www-live.digilibri.com/catalog/detail/5/814_a_de.html for a short report on APE 2006)
TextsCharles W. Bailey, Jr.: Version 63: 8/1/2006 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.htmlJohn Houghton & Peter Sheehan: The Economic Impact of Enhanced Access to Research Findings. Centre for Strategic Economic Studies. Victoria University. July 2006. http://www.cfses.com/documents/wp23.pdf
George Porter: Let's Get it Started! Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 47, 2006.
http://www.istl.org/06-summer/viewpoints.html Arthur Sale: The Acquisition of Open Access Research Articles http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000375/ Journals/Newsletter Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/ First Monday, 11(8) http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_8/ Ubiquity 7.31 http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/issues7.html --- FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627) English -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm German -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm Spanish -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s.htm