FQS Newsletter December 2007

[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 December 2007
B.	Conferences and Workshops
C.	Links
D.	Open Access News

On 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 2007: the members of our Editorial Board and Staff, the Editors of 
FQS 8(1) -- 8(3) and the following external reviewers: Roberta Bampton, 
Maren Borkert, Andrea Buehrmann, Martin Dege, Rainer Diaz-Bone, Margit 
Fauser, Matthias Gross, Heiko Hausendorf, Juergen Hoffmeyer-Zltonik, 
Tilmann Habermas, Anja Hermann, Matti Hyvalaenen, Gavin Kendall, Simone 
Kreher, Carol Lewis, Beate Littig, Thomas Mayer, Lothar Mikos, Raymond 
Oppendakker, Juergen Raab, Alexander Roehler, Dietmar Rost, Werner 
Schneider, Carla De Tona, Dirk vom Lehn.

A season of health, peace, and prosperity for all of you!
Katja Mruck

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A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN DECEMBER 2007

Andreas Eickhorst (Germany): Review, Werner Vogd (2005). Systemtheorie 
und rekonstruktive Sozialforschung. Eine empirische Versoehnung 
unterschiedlicher theoretischer Perspektiven [Systems Theory and 
Reconstructive Social Research: An Empirical Conciliation of Theoretical 
Perspectives]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-57-e.htm

Sabine Hoidn (UK): Review, Michael Kerres & Reinhard Keil-Slawik (Eds.) 
(2005). Hochschulen im digitalen Zeitalter: Innovationspotenziale und 
Strukturwandel [Universities in the Digital Age: Opportunities for 
Innovation and Structural Change]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-58-e.htm

Frances Rapport, Marcus A. Doel & Paul Wainwright (UK): The Doctor's 
Tale: Enacted Workspace and the General Practitioner
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-2-e.htm

Shalva Weil (Israel): Is There a "Legimitation Crisis" in Qualitative 
Methods? Conference Essay: ESF Exploratory Workshop on Improving the 
Quality of Qualitative Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-6-e.htm

Martin Welker (Germany): Ullrich Dittler, Michael Kindt & Christine 
Schwarz (Eds.) (2007). Online-Communities als soziale Systeme. Wikis, 
Weblogs und Social Software im E-Learning [Online-Communities as Social 
Systems: Wikis, Weblogs and Social Software in E-Learning]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-46-e.htm

Anja Wollny, Simone Kreher, Martin Sielk, Stefan Wilm & Silke Brockmann 
(Germany): General Practitioners Caught in the "Trap of a Relationship"? 
Results of a Qualitative Study about Concepts of Disease Held by Doctors 
and Their Treatment Strategies of Venous Ulcer
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-08/08-1-42-e.htm


B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

23-24 February 2008, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
The 3rd Grounded Theory Seminar in China
http://www.groundedtheory.com/spring.html

23-27 June 2008, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, 
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
8th Annual Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Conference
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/thinking.cfm

2-4 July 2008, Strasbourg, France
Conference "Policy and Programme Evaluation in Europe: Cultures and 
Prospects", organized by Gesellschaft fuer Evaluation (DeGEval) and the 
Société Française de l'Évaluation (SFÉ)
http://www.degeval.de/index.php?class=Calimero_Webpage&id=16380

18-20 September 2008, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of 
Warsaw, Poland
CfP GlobE 2008 "Critical Discourse Analysis And Global Media", TG04 
"Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty"
http://www.globe.ils.uw.edu.pl/index.php?section=7&subsection=1

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) and 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-s.htm 
(Spanish) for additional conference announcements.


C) LINKS

Reader "Concepts and Methods in Migration Research"
http://www.cultural-capital.net/

Deadline Extension January 16, 2008: "Times of Trouble: Violence in 
Eurasia from Past to Present", New York City, April 4-6, 2008, Eurasia 
Program of the Social Science Research Council (Please note: only U.S. 
citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply)
http://programs.ssrc.org/eurasia/Title8_Dissertation_Workshops/violence_2008/ 



D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

December SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-07.htm

Conferences

25-27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada
12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing "Open 
Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0"
http://www.elpub.net/

Texts

Bailey, Charles W. Jr.: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing 
Bibliography, Version 70
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

Dietrich, Joerg P.: The Importance of Being First: Position Dependent 
Citation Rates on arXiv:astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Dietrich_J/0/1/0/all/0/1

Kosmopoulos, Christine & Pumain, Denise: Citation, Citation, Citation: 
Bibliometrics, the Web and the Social Sciences and Humanities
http://www.cybergeo.eu/index15463.html

Heather Morrison: Dramatic Growth of Open Access & Predictions for 2008: 
Minor Update
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2007/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.html 


Journals/newsletter

THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS REACHES AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE – 
MORE THAN 3,000 JOURNALS IN THE DOAJ
http://www.doaj.org/

Economics
http://www.economics-ejournal.org/

First Monday, 12(12)
http://journals.uic.edu/fm/

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching &Learning (IJ-SoTL)
http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/current.htm

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE)
http://jmde.com/

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