Re: FQS Newsletter 6-7/06

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

Dear All,

Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news:

A) Articles, Published in FQS
-- in former FQS issues, now available in additional languages
-- in November 2006

B) Inside FQS
New Project: "German Online Information Portal On Open Access Issues", 
funded by the German Science Foundation

C) Conferences and Workshops
D) Links
E) Open Access News

Enjoy reading!
Katja Mruck

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A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS

-- FROM FORMER FQS ISSUES

Thanks to David López, another text -- originally only published in FQS 
6(2) in the English language -- is now also available in Spanish:

Participant Observation as a Data Collection Method
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-43-e.htm

La observación participante como método de recolección de datos
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-43-s.htm

-- IN NOVEMBER 2006

Lisa Cone (USA): Resilience in Russian Immigrant Stories: An Alternative 
to Deficiency Models. Review Essay: Dennis Shasha & Marina Shron (2002). 
Red Blues: Voices from the Last Wave of Russian Immigrants
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-19-e.htm

Elke Fein (Germany) & Marie-laure Florea (France): Interiors and 
Exteriors in Discourse Analysis and the Sociology of Science. Conference 
Essay: Discourse Analysis in Germany and France: Recent Developments in 
Linguistics and the Social Sciences
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-22-e.htm

Matthias Gross (Germany): Review, Niels C. Taubert (2006). Produktive 
Anarchie? Netzwerke freier Softwareentwicklung [Productive Anarchy? 
Networks of Open Source Software Development]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-10-e.htm

Aldo Merlino & Alejandra Martínez (Argentina): Integration of 
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Building and Interpreting Clusters 
from Grounded Theory and Discourse Analysis
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-21-e.htm

Viera Pirker (Germany): Review, Angela Kaupp (2005). Junge Frauen 
erzaehlen ihre Glaubensgeschichte. Eine qualitativ-empirische Studie zur 
Rekonstruktion der narrativen religioesen Identitaet katholischer junger 
Frauen [Young Women Tell Their Story of Faith. A Qualitative-empirical 
Study on Reconstructing the Narrative Religious Identity of Young 
Catholic Women]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-18-e.htm

Elisabeth Rangosch-Schneck (Germany): "... There's so much going on 
unspoken in the back of the mind ..."  -- The Use of Repertory Grid 
Technique as a Qualitative Heuristic Research Design to Understand 
Teachers' Perceptions of Parents
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-9-e.htm

Dietmar Rost (Germany): Review, Verena Dreissig (2005). Interkulturelle 
Kommunikation im Krankenhaus. Eine Studie zur Interaktion zwischen 
Klinikpersonal und Patienten mit Migrationshintergrund [Intercultural 
Communication in the Hospital. A Study of Hospital Staff Interaction 
with Migrant Patients]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-5-e.htm


B) INSIDE FQS

-- New Project: "German Online Information Portal On Open Access Issues"

Since September 2006 the German Science Foundation (Deutsche 
Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) funds the implementation of a nation-wide 
online information portal on Open Access issues that is operated 
cooperatively by the Universities of Bielefeld, Goettingen, Constance 
and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, with support from DINI (German 
Initiative for Networked Information). The platform is intended to 
inform scientists, their professional societies, university 
administrations and the interested public comprehensively on objectives 
and use of Open Access, and support them with practical assistance on 
its implementation in practice.

Open Access Publications are conceived as scientific publications that 
are worldwide freely available on the Internet. The Open Access 
Movement's objective is the better utilisation of this form of 
publication in order to maximise the diffusion and usage of scientific 
knowledge. As recent studies demonstrate 
(http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html), the reception of Open 
Access publications generally is already several times higher than that 
of traditional publications behind cost barriers. For individual authors 
as well as their institutions, this translates into a significantly 
better "visibility" within the international scientific community. The 
signing of the "Berlin Declaration on open access to scientific 
knowledge" (http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/signatories.html) by 
numerous national and international science organisations and funding 
bodies and a growing number of Universities underlines the importance 
for Open Access for Science Policy in general.

A DFG survey on author's experiences with Open Access 
(http://www.dfg.de/en/dfg_profile/facts_and_figures/statistical_reporting/open_access/index.html) 
showed that open access publication opportunities are still 
underutilized, but found much willingness to actively further Open 
Access in Germany. Therefore the DFG, as a cosignatory of the "Berlin 
Declaration", like many other national funding organisations, strongly 
encourages all project investigators to publish in refereed Open Access 
journals or to make available digital copies of their work on Open 
Access servers.

Until now Information on Open Access is largely produced in an 
uncoordinated way and is mostly scattered widely throughout the 
Internet, much of it is dependent upon the local personal commitment of 
individuals. This fact is largely responsible for the discrepancy 
between the growing international significance of Open Access on one 
hand and the comparatively small publicity and little practice with 
German scientists on the other hand.

The new information portal sets out to counter this development in 
Germany. The offer addresses primarily scientific authors, university 
administrations and scholarly societies. Current deficits in information 
and use within the German Higher Education Landscape are sought to be 
removed by the concise presentation of relevant information on open 
access issues targeted to specific audiences. The information platform 
will also concentrate on concrete recommendations for action, know how 
and argumentation aids as well as the sharing of practical experience 
and all sort of information materials on Open Access.
http://www.openaccess-germany.de/


C) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

Bournemouth University, UK
18-19 January, Masterclass "The Ambit of Biographical Research", 
presented by Robert Miller
22-23 March, Masterclass "Systematic Review and Synthesis of Qualitative 
Research", presented by Margarete Sandelowski
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Bournemouth-07.pdf 
(PDF, 96 KB)

16-18 February, Bildungszentrum Erkner, Berlin, Germany
Meeting "Qualitative Approaches in the Field of Psychology", organized 
by Center for Qualitative Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
http://www.qualitative-psychologie.de/index.php?article_id=20&clang=1

24-25 March, Shanghai, China
The 2nd Grounded Theory Methodology Trouble-shooting Seminar in China
http://www.groundedtheory.com/spring.html

13-14 April, Vila Nova de Sto Andre, Portugal
International Conference "Advances in Tourism Economics"
http://www.ate2007.com/

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

3-16 June, Rovereto, Italy
IHSRC 2007 International Human Science Research Conference "New 
frontiers of phenomenology. Beyond postmodernism in empirical research"
http://www.unitn.it/events/ihsrc07/

3-5 September, PJ Hilton, Malaysia
4th International Qualitative Research Convention "Doing Qualitative 
Research: Processes, Issues and Challenges", Qualitative Research 
Association of Malaysia
http://qrc2007-qram.um.edu.my/

3-6 September, Glasgow, Scotland
CfP "Using Qualitative Research: The Relevance and Applicability of 
Micro Methods", ESA RN Qualitative Methods
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/qual.htm

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.


D) LINKS

Job Opportunities for Ethnographic Researchers: Swiss-based SolutionSync 
GmbH, an internationally recognized consumer research firm that helps 
companies create meaningful ideas, designs and experiences that 
consumers and customers crave, has an opening for ethnographic 
researchers. The positions are based in Switzerland and Germany.
http://www.solutionsync.com/Career-Opportunities.html

Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section, British Psychological Association
http://www.bps.org.uk/qmip/

IMISCOE/HERMES Training Messenger On International Migration, Ethnicity 
and Social Cohesion http://www.messenger.hermes-researchers.net/

New Thematic Guide on Youth Culture, ESDS Qualidata
http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/news/newsdetail.asp?id=1651

CAQDAS Networking Project: Updates and new workshops with vacancies
http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/index.htm

Jennifer Howard: Oral History Under Review, Chronicle of Higfher 
Education, Nov 10
http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i12/12a01401.htm

Report "Social Sciences in Europe", new edition
http://www.esf.org/publication/224/SocialSciencesinEurope.pdf (PDF, 620 KB)

European Education Policy Network: Gateway to Research into European 
Policy on Education
http://www.educationpolicy.eu/

Foucault versus Chomsky debate LIVE on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=foucault+and+chomsky

Praat version 4.5 (Doing Phonetics by Computer)
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/


E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

November SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-06.htm

Online Access to Research in the Environment
http://www.oaresciences.org/en/

Manchester Metropolitan University's institutional open access repository
http://www.e-space.mmu.ac.uk/e-space/

New Zurich Open Repository and Archive
http://www.zora.unizh.ch/zora/

Report of the Task Force on Open Access publishing in Particle physics
http://library.cern.ch/OATaskForce_public.pdf

Conferences

11-14, Stockholm
2007 Annual IATUL Conference "Global Access to Science"
http://www.lib.kth.se/iatul2007/call_for_papers.asp

11-13 July, Vancouver
First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/493

Presentations and a "National Open Access Policy for Developing 
Countries" available from the
Workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2-3 November 2006
http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/

Texts

Armbruster, Chris (2006): Cyberscience and the Knowledge-based Economy, 
Open Access and Trade Publishing: From Contradiction to Compatibility 
with Nonexclusive Copyright Licensing
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=938119

Harnad, Stevan (2006): Promoting open access to research, The Hindu, 
Online edition of India's National Newspaper, Nov 01, 2006
http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/01/stories/2006110104991100.htm

Harnad, Stevan (2006): Research Journals Are Already Just Quality 
Controllers and Certifiers: So What Are "Overlay Journals"?
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/171-guid.html

Harris, Siân (2006): Open Access Helps When Disciplines Overlap. 
Interview with Mark Cassarabout open access, new technologies and why a 
physics publisher is interested in biology
http://www.researchinformation.info/ridec06jan07product_focus.html

Journals/Newsletters

Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/

CEU Political Science Journal. The Graduate Student Review, 4
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/PolSciJournal/issues.html

Chinese Medicine, new
http://www.cmjournal.org/

ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 6(3)
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/index.htm

First Monday, 11(11)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_11/

Living Reviews in European Governance
http://europeangovernance.livingreviews.org/

M/C -- Media and Culture, 9(5)
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

Studies in Language and Capitalism, new
http://www.languageandcapitalism.info/

Surveillance & Society, 4(1/2)
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/journalv4i1.htm

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