Re: FQS Newsletter 6-7/06
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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