FQS Newsletter

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

Dear all,

today only two news, concerning FQS and the Social Science Open Access 
Repository (SSOAR), another project we are involved in:

- During tomorrow, it will be possible to access FQS full texts (see 
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for the 
tables of content), but for some hours registering, login, and online 
submission of new articles will not work because of software updates.


- Expand the visibility and reach of your work by making it available 
via SSOAR!

Scholarly literature which is freely accessible on the Internet has a 
high chance of being found and cited. This considerably enhances the 
visibility of authors, their institutions and publishers. Open-access 
publications are particularly suitable in this regard.

This common-sense principle applies both to primary publications which 
appear in open-access journals such as FQS and to  publications which 
are self-archived in an open-access e-print repository in addition to 
being published in toll-access journals etc. -- Making documents 
accessible worldwide via a discipline-specific repository such as Social 
Science Open Access Repository (http://www.ssoar.info/en/home.html) is 
very easily done. And the benefits for both authors and readers are 
considerable.

Today, we would like to invite you, as FQS readers and authors, to make 
your documents available via SSOAR. By so doing, you will not only 
strengthen the spirit of Open Access but you will also increase the 
visibility of your scholarly output in the various scientific communities.

If you wish to make your documents available via a repository, there are 
a number of good reasons for choosing SSOAR:

- SSOAR is geared towards a scholarly audience in the social sciences 
wishing to search quality-controlled content across disciplinary 
boundaries and to access documents directly and free of charge.
- SSOAR is an important resource for German, English and 
Spanish-speaking social scientists who wish to make documents freely 
accessible to the research community in order to increase the visibility 
and citation frequency of their research papers.
- SSOAR offers unrestricted world-wide access to full texts – all with a 
standard browser.
- Each document has an individual URN (Uniform Resource Name), thereby 
facilitating reliable referencing adhering to scientific standards.
- Additional subject metadata ensures that documents can be sought and 
found easily. A simple Google search request suffices.
- Cross-linking with other resources such as portals (sowiport.de) and 
disciplinary databases enlarges the searchable content.
- SSOAR is networked within the growing Open Access community and 
guarantees technological innovativeness.

The document-deposit process comprises five easy steps which are 
explained intuitively here: 
http://www.ssoar.info/en/home/about-ssoar/self-archiving.html. General 
information on the advantages of self-archiving can be found on the 
following webpage: http://www.ssoar.info/en/home/dokumente-einstellen.html

If you have any questions relating to self-archiving, please contact 
Stefan Buddenbohm of the SSOAR team (stefan.buddenbohm@fu-berlin.de). He 
will be happy to give you advice and to assist you with the deposit 
process.

All the best,
Katja Mruck

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FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627)

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