Dear All, Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news: A) Articles, Published in FQS in February 2006 B) From our Readers C) Conferences and Workshops D) Links E) Open Access News Enjoy reading! Katja Mruck ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN FEBRUARY 2006 Dirk Ducar (Germany): Review: Gerrit Herlyn & Thomas Overdick (Eds.) (2003). Kassettengeschichten. Von Menschen und ihren Mixtapes [Cassette Stories. Men and Their Mix Tapes] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-14-e.htm Daniel Domínguez Figaredo (Spain): Educational Ethnography beyond Scholarly Ethnography. Transferring Meanings to Cyberspace. Review Essay: Honorio M. Velasco Maillo, F. Javier García Castaño & Ángel Díaz de Rada (Eds.) (2003). Lecturas de antropología para educadores. El ámbito de la antropología de la educación y de la etnografía escolar [Readings on Anthropology for Educating. The Field of Educational Anthropology and Scholar Ethnography] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-2-e.htm (English full text) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-2-s.htm (Spanish full text) Mary Gergen (USA): Review: Lesa Lockford (2004). Performing Femininity: Rewriting Gender Identity http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-13-e.htm Stefanie Grosse (Germany): Review: Bruno Hildenbrand (2005). Fallrekonstruktive Familienforschung. Anleitungen fuer die Praxis [Case Reconstruction in Family Research. Guidance for Practice] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-9-e.htm Christine Holmberg (USA): Review: Judith Green & Nicki Thorogood (2004). Qualitative Methods for Health Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-7-e.htm Amrei C. Joerchel (Austria): A Qualitative Study of Multicultural Identities: Three Cases of London's Inner-City Children http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-18-e.htm Anne Klein (Germany): Review: Walburga Freitag (2005). Contergan. Eine genealogische Studie des Zusammenhangs wissenschaftlicher Diskurse und biographischer Erfahrungen [Contergan. A Genealogical Study on Scientific Discourse and Biography] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-15-e.htm Iain Lang (UK): Review: Melissa Hardy & Alan Bryman (Eds.) (2004). Handbook of Data Analysis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-20-e.htm Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): Review: Irit Kupferberg & David Green (2005). Troubled Talk. Metaphorical Negotiation in Problem Discourse http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-5-e.htm Andrea Stoeckl (UK): Ethnography, Travel Writing and the Self: Reflections on Socially Robust Knowledge and the Authorial Ego. Review Essay: Laurel Richardson & Ernest Lockridge (2004). Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-11-e.htm Hella von Unger (Germany): Working With and Against the Concepts of "Race" and "Ethnicity": Research Dilemmas and Tools. Review Essay: Yasmin Gunaratnam (2003). Researching "Race" and Ethnicity: Methods, Knowledge and Power http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-21-e.htm B) FROM OUR READERS Use of focus group data http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/39/126.html?1140631684 Use of secondary data http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/36/127.html?1140388762 The cultural factor in qualitative research http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/39/128.html?1140551905 Conceptual change in science education http://www.qualitative-research.net/discus/messages/18/125.html?1140140488 C) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 24-25 April, Bournemouth University, UK Masterclass "Reflexivity in Qualitative Research" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CQR_UK_Masterclass_0604.pdf (PDF file, 30 KB) 5-10 June, Bhubaneswar, India Doctoral Summer School (DSS 2006) Case-Study Research http://www1.ximb.ac.in/users/web/fpm.nsf/pages/DSS2006 6-9 June, New York City and Washington, D.C., USA Training Seminar for Policy Research "Public Health, Social Welfare Systems, and HIV/AIDS in Eurasia", Social Science Research Council Eurasia Program http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/SSRC_Eurasia_Public Health.pdf (PDF file, 222 KB) 9-10 June, Cedarville, OH, USA 18th Annual Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education (EQRE) http://www.cedarville.edu/eqre/ 21-24 August, Groningen, The Netherlands ALARPM 7th and PAR 11th WORLD CONGRESS "Participatory Research, Standards and Ethics" http://www.wcar2006.nl/ 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 October, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, UK UK Evaluation Society/European Evaluation Society: Joint International Conference Evaluation in Society: Critical Connections http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/eval_soc_2006.pdf (PDF file, 35 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 Social Science Research Council: Predissertation Fellowship for International Collaboration Awards of up to $7,000 for International Research and/or Training Deadline: March 31, 2006 http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/links/PFIC_Flyer.pdf (PDF file, 124 KB) The Department of Media and Communication Studies in the School of the Humanities at the University of Mannheim invites applications for a tenured position at Full Professor level (W3 Professor). http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/links/Uni-Mannheim_W3_2006.pdf (PDF file, 15 KB) Ethnographic Thesaurus http://www.etproject.org/ Wikipedia articles on evaluation topics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation Weft QDA version 1.0, free, open-source tool for analysis of textual qualitative data analysis for Windows and GNU/Linux http://www.pressure.to/qda/ TAMS Analyzer, qualitative analysis software for OS X http://tamsys.sf.net/osxtams/download.html >From Memory Guide to Oral History, website http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/from-memory Doctoral Education, new discussion list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/doctoral_education/ DISABLED-FACULTY, new discussion list http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=disabled-faculty D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS February SPARC Open Access Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-06.htm Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) http://www.opendoar.org/ Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) http://archives.eprints.org/ Swiss scientific organizations have agreed to allow open access http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=511&sid=6445776&cKey=1139306438000 Repository Deposit Scenarios http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/All_the_Scenarios_and_Use_Cases_Submitted Petition for Public Access to Geographic Data in Europe http://petition.publicgeodata.org Research project "User Needs and Potential Users of Public Repositories: An Integrated Analysis", funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) invites participants as questionnaire respondents http://www.my3q.com/go.php?url=repository/86417 Position as Scholarly Communications and Publishing Manager, Lund University Libraries http://www3.lu.se/info/lediga/admin/document/x426.pdf Conferences 20-21 March, Binghamton University Libraries, USA Symposium "Funding Our Digital Future: Budgeting for Libraries & Scholarly Communication" http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/librarynews/archives/2006/01/funding_our_dig.html 29-31 March, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik, Golm, Germany Berlin 4 "Open Access: From Promise to Practice" http://berlin4.aei.mpg.de/ 4-5 April, Berlin, Germany Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2006) "The Role of Information in Science and Society" http://www.ape2006.de/ 21-23 April, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA The Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K) http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2kspeakers.html 24-25 April, Lund, Sweden 3rd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2006/ 11-13 May, Bergen, Norway Open Access Institutional Repositories, Current Research Information Systems (CRIS2006) http://ct.eurocris.org/CRIS2006/ 15 May, McGill, Montréal, Canada Congrès de l'ACFAS 2006: L'information scientifique: les impacts du libre accès http://www.acfas.ca/congres/ Texts Charles W. Bailey, Jr.: Version 61, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html John Lorinc: The Bottom Line on Open Access http://www.universityaffairs.ca/issues/2006/march/open_access_01.html Alireza Noruzi: The Web Impact Factor: A Critical Review. The Electronic Library 24 (2006). http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005543/ Michel Prévot: La publication scientifique à accès libre: de l'idéal aux modalités concrètes. Application aux sciences de la terre http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/archives0/00/00/16/71/index_fr.html Gerard van Westrienen & Clifford A. Lynch: Academic Institutional Repositories: Deployment Status in 13 Nations as of Mid 2005" http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/westrienen/09westrienen.html Journals/Newsletter Demographic Research, 1249 http://www.demographic-research.org First Monday, 11(2) http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_2/ Implementation Science http://www.implementationscience.com/ Journal of Research Practice http://jrp.icaap.org/ Papers on Social Representations http://www.psr.jku.at/psrindex.htm Polizei-Newsletter / Police Newsletter / BoletínPolicial, 83 http://www.polizei-newsletter.de/aktueller_newsletter.htm http://www.polizei-newsletter.de/English/aktuell-eng.htm http://www.polizei-newsletter.de/Espanol/aktuell-sp.htm Qualitative Sociology Review News, 2nd issue http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/volume2.php ScieCom info http://www.sciecom.org/ Surveillance & Society 3(2/3) on "Doing Surveillance Studies: Methodology Issue" http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/doing.htm Survey Research Methods, new http://esra.sqp.nl/esra/journal/ --- 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 Please sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/ Open Access News: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html