Dear All, Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news: A) Articles, Published in FQS in December 2007 B) Conferences and Workshops C) Links D) Open Access NewsOn behalf of the Editorial team I would like to thank you for your interest and support. Thanks also to the colleagues who reviewed for FQS in 2005: the members of our Editorial Board and Staff, the Editors of FQS 6(1) – 6(4) and the following external reviewers: Tony Adams, Ariane Antal, Robert Antony, Roberta Bampton, Maren Borkert, Robin Boylorn, Rainer Diaz-Bone, Michael Dick, Mary Dixion Woods, Juergen Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Irena Medjedovic, Alexander Roehler, Carla De Tona, and Holger von der Lippe.
A season of health, peace, and prosperity for all of you! Katja Mruck ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN DECEMBER 2007Mircea Agabrian (Romania): Relationships between School and Family: The Adolescents' Perspective
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-20-e.htmDisa Bergnéhr (Sweden): Love and Family: Discussions Between Swedish Men and Women Concerning the Transition to Parenthood
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-23-e.htmEsin Bozkurt (Germany): Review: Dietmar Loch (2005). Jugendliche magrebinischer Herkunft zwischen Stadtpolitik und Lebenswelt [Youth of Maghrebian Origin Between Municipal Politics and the Life-World]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-26-e.htmRainer Diaz-Bone (Germany): Does Qualitative Network Analysis Exist? Review Essay: Betina Hollstein & Florian Straus (Eds.) (2006). Qualitative Netzwerkanalyse. Konzepte, Methoden, Anwendungen [Qualitative Network Analysis: Concepts, Methods, Applications]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-28-e.htmThomas Link (Austria): Review: Michael Jaeckel & Manfred Mai (Eds.) (2005). Online-Vergesellschaftung? Mediensoziologische Perspektiven auf neue Kommunikationstechnologien [Internet-mediated Societalization? Media Sociology's Perspectives on New Communication Technologies]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-24-e.htm Bakhtiar Shabani Varaki (Iran): Narrative Inquiry in Educational Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-4-e.htm B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 5-7 January, University of Georgia, USA20th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies "Celebrating Quality in Qualitative Research"
http://www.coe.uga.edu/quig/ 18-19 January, Bournemouth University, UKMasterclass "The Ambit of Biographical Research", presented by Prof Robert Miller http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Bournemouth-07.pdf (PDF, 96 KB)
18-20 April, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK CAQDAS 07 Conference: Advances in Qualitative Computing http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference/conference07.htm 30 May-1 June, Guanajuato, MexicoSecond International Qualitative Research Conference "Cultural Complexities of Qualitative Research"
http://www.qualitativegto.org/7-9 December, Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany CfP International Conference "Ethnicity, Belonging, Biography and Ethnography", co-organized with the TransCoop project "Biography and Ethnicity" and the Research Committee 38 "Biography and Society" of the International Sociological Association http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Biography_07.pdf (PDF, 17 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 Oral history studies, new thematic guide on http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/news/newsdetail.asp?id=1661 ERPA -- European Research Papers Archive http://eiop.or.at/erpa/ Noesis: Philosophical Research On-line http://noesis.evansville.edu/ D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS December SPARC Open Access Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-06.htmAustralian Research Council (ARC) expects Open Access for ARC-funded projects
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_12_03_fosblogarchive.html#116526965445838544 Forthcoming OA Developments in France http://threader.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lists/boaiforum/945.html"Open access: an alternative of access to scientific information", Declaration of Mexico
https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/3495.htmlStatement "Open access to scientific publications", Council of the Rectors of Portuguese Universities
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5881.html IFLA/Unesco Internet Manifesto Guidelines http://www.ifla.org/faife/policy/iflastat/Internet-ManifestoGuidelines.pdf Conferences 22-24 January, Berlin, Germany APE 2007 Academic Publishing in Europe "Innovation & Publishing" http://www.ape2007.eu/index.html 23-26 January, San Antonio, Texas, USA Open Repositories Conference 2007 http://openrepositories.org/ 15-16 February, Brussels, BelgiumEuropean Commission Conference "Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area -- Access, Dissemination, and Preservation in the Digital Age"
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3459 18-20 April, Geneva, Switzerland 5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication http://cern.ch/oai5 27-29 April, New Haven, USA Yale ISP Second Conference on Access to Knowledge http://research.yale.edu/isp/ 13-15 June, Vienna, Austria11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing ELPUB 2007 "Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access"
http://www.elpub.net/ 11-13 July, Vancouver, Canada First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/493 19-21 September, Padova, ItalyBerlin 5 Open Access: "From Practice to Impact: Consequences on Knowledge Dissemination"
http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-padua/index.html TextsBailey, Charles W. Jr.: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 66
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/Parker, Carole A.: Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal Scholarship. New Mexico Law Review
http://ssrn.com/abstract=928489 Journals/newsletterTHE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS REACHES AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE – MORE THAN 2500 JOURNALS IN THE DOAJ
http://www.doaj.org/ Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 5 http://www.discourseunit.com/arcp/5.htm CCAHTE, Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education eNews/journal, 4(Dec) http://www.cmclean.com/eNewsletter/06_december_enews.pdf Electronic Journal of Business, Ethics and Organization Studies, 11(2) http://ejbo.jyu.fi/ First Monday, 11(12) http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/ International Journal of Zizek Studies, new http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/zizek/home.cfm Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation http://evaluation.wmich.edu/jmde/JMDE_Num006.html Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 4/5 http://www.pipss.org/ Journal of Research Practice http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/ Journal of Whole Schooling, 3(1) http://www.wholeschooling.net/Journal_of_Whole_Schooling/IJWSIndex.html organdi, launch of new site and new issue http://www.organdi.net/?lang=en Solidarity, Sustainability, and Religious Violence, 2(12) http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv02n12.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