FQS Newsletter
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)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/
English / German / Spanish
