FQS Newsletter 10/06
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 October 2006
B) Inside FQS
-- CfP FQS 8(3) "Virtual Ethnography"
-- Book reviewers needed
-- Documentation 2nd Berlin Meeting on Qualitative Methods online
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 one of our Columbian readers, David López, the following text
-- originally only published in FQS 6(2) in the English language -- is
now also available in Spanish:
Providing (Online) Resources and Services for Qualitative Researchers:
Challenges and Potentials
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-38-e.htm
Proporcionar (en línea) recursos y servicios para investigadores
cualitativos: desafíos y posibilidades
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-38-s.htm
-- IN OCTOBER 2006
Ute Karl (Germany): Metaphors as Traces of Discourses in Biographical Texts
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-3-e.htm
Karen V. Lee (Canada): Confessing Takes Courage
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-6-e.htm
Juergen Rausch (Switzerland): Review, Karin Reiber (2005). Organisation
im Spiegel der Regula Benedicti [Organisation in Reflection of Regula
Benedicti]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-7-e.htm
Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): Review, Nicole Hroch (2005). Metaphern des
Umweltmanagements [Metaphors of Environmental Management]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-8-e.htm
B) INSIDE FQS
-- CFP FQS 8(3) "VIRTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY"
FQS 8(3) – edited by Daniel Domínguez, Anne Beaulieu, Adolfo Estalella,
Edgar Gómez, Rosie Read and Bernt Schnettler -- will be dedicated to
"Virtual Ethnography". The CfP is available at:
- http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/CfP_07-3-e.htm (English)
- http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/CfP_07-3-d.htm (German)
- http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/CfP_07-3-s.htm (Spanish)
Deadline for submission of papers will be February 15, 2007.
-- BOOK REVIEWERS NEEDED
Book reviewers needed for new books on action research, historical
research, ethnodrama, qualitative research (design, writing/presenting),
etc.
Please contact Guenter Mey (mey@qualitative-forschung.de) if you are
interested to review one of the following books for FQS. Pls. check the
"Information on Reviewing Media Units"
(http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/book-reviews/medieneinheiten-ehtm)
first!
Catharine Marshall & Gretchen B. Rossman(2006).
Designing Qualitative Research (4th ed.)
(London: Sage, 262 pages)
Peter Reason & Hilary Bradbury (2006).
Handbook of Action Research (Concise Paperback Edition)
(London: Sage, 362 pages)
Johnny Saldana (Ed.) (2005).
Ethnodrama. An Anthology of Reality Theatre
(London: AltaMira, 230 pages)
David Silverman (2006).
Interpreting Qualitative Data (3rd. ed.)
(London: Sage, 428 pages)
Angela Thody (2006).
Writing an Presenting Research
(London: Sage, 264 pages)
Jack Whitehead & Jean McNiff (2006).
Action Research: Living Theory
(London: Sage, 182 pages)
-- DOCUMENTATION 2ND BERLIN MEETING ON QUALITATIVE METHODS
The documentation of the 2nd Berlin Meeting on Qualitative Methods –
texts, videos, photos, posters – is now available online at
http://www.berliner-methodentreffen.de/material/2006/materialien_2006.php
(German).
C) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
23-25 March 2007, Yale University, USA
Workshop "Violence in Eurasia: Historical and Contemporary Approaches",
organized by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Yale_2007.pdf (PDF
file, 3 MB)
29-31 March 2007, Queen's College, Cambridge, UK
ESRC Social Contexts and Responses to Risk Network Conference "Risk &
Rationalities"
http://www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/events/rrcontext.htm
13-15 April 2007, Institute of Discourse & Cultural Studies, Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou, China
The Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses
http://www.shixu.com/institute-conference/
27 April 2007, School of Social Sciences, City University, London, UK
Postgraduate Conference "Extending The Boundaries: New Research in
Sociology"
http://www.city.ac.uk/sociology/mediacomm/Boundaries.html
27-28 April 2007, Birmingham, UK
Symposium "Narrative and Multimodality: Language, Theory, Contexts",
Narrative Special Interest Group, Poetics and Linguistics Association
http://www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=narrative-and-multimodality
16-18 May 2007, Michigan State University, USA
Conference on Cultural Rhetorics
http://rhetoric.msu.edu/cultrhet/
18-21 July 2007, Endicott College Campus, Boston, USA
Fifth Biennial Conference, International Society of Critical Health
Psychology
http://www.ischp.org/
3-6 September 2007, 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
ESRC QUADS (Qualitative Data Archiving and Data Sharing) Demonstrator
Scheme Showcase day, London, September 2006: Presentations and materials
online
http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/news/eventdetail.asp?ID=1588
"Internet for Modern Languages", new edition
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/languages
"Internet for Religious Studies", new tutorial
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/religion
ESA Research Network on the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (SoRU)
launched
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/risk.htm
E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS
October SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-06.htm
Launch of OpenDOAR Search, a worldwide Directory of Open Access trial
search service for researchers
http://www.opendoar.org/search.php
Launch of SHERPA Search, a trial search service for UK repositories
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/news/launchsherpasearch.html
The European Commission's Research Directorate-General commissioned a
"Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific
publication markets in Europe", published in the beginning of 2006 and
available at
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf.
The summary of the responses and the individual contributions now are
available online:
-- Summary:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/synthesis-consultation_en.pdf
-- Individual responses:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3186
New international model agreement for authors "Balancing Rights and
Interests in the Digital Age" published
www.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/licence/
Conferences
2-3 November, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Workshop on §Electronic Publishing and Open Access: Developing Country
Perspectives"
http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/
23-27 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas USA
2nd International Conference on Open Repositories "Achieving
Interoperability in an Open World"
http://www.openrepositories.org/
11-13 July 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
CfP, 1st International Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publishing
Conference
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/callforpapers.php
Texts
Sale, Arthur (2006): The Acquisition of Open Access Research Articles.
First Monday, 11(10)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/sale/index.html
Sica, Giandomenico (Ed.) (2006) Open Access: Open Problems. Polimetrica
Publisher.
http://www.polimetrica.com/polimetrica/506/02/Open_Access_Open_Problems_vers._elettr.pdf
Uhlir, Paul F. & Esanu, Julie M. (2006): Strategies for Preservation of
and Open Access to Scientific Data in China: Summary of a Workshop
http://newton.nap.edu/catalog/11710.html
Journals/Newsletters
Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/
First Monday, 11(10)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, CfP Special issue "Social
Network Sites:
People, Practice, and Culture"
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dmb/jcmc-sns/
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
http://evaluation.wmich.edu/jmde/
Journal of Social Science Education, 1/06
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/index.html
Medical History: A European Journal of the History of Medicine and
Health, 50(4)
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?iid=135581
P.O.S.T.M.O.D.E.R.N C.U.L.T.U.R.E, 16(3)
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/
Radical Psychology: A Journal of Psychology, Politics and Radicalism, CfP
http://www.radpsynet.org/journal/index.html
Solidarity, Sustainability, and Religious Violence, 2(10)
http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv02n10.html
Visions of Research in Music Education
http://www.rider.edu/~vrme/
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