[FQS] 12(3) online

Katja Mruck <katja.mruck@fu-berlin.de> · Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:04:56 +0200

Dear All,

I would like to inform you that FQS 12(3) -- "Qualitative Archives and 

Biographical Research Methods" -- 

(http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/38), 

edited by Miguel S. Valles, Louise Corti, Maria Tamboukou and Alejandro 

Baer -- is available online (see 

http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for 

former issues). In addition to articles relating to "Qualitative 

Archives and Biographical Research Methods", FQS 12(3) provides a number 

of selected single contributions (f.e. on performativity, transcription, 

and the observation of online communities), as well as an article, 

belonging to the FQS Debate on Teaching and Learning Qualitative Methods 

and to FQS Reviews.

A) FQS 12(3)
B) From former FQS Issues
C) Inside FQS
-- "Go Open Access"- Film Series
-- Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
D) Conferences and Workshops
E) Links
F) Grants
G) Open Access News

Enjoy reading!
Katja Mruck

Ps: FQS is an open-access journal, so all articles are available free of 

charge (see http://open-access.net/de_en/homepage/ for additional 

information about open access). This newsletter is sent to 14,789 

registered readers; registered readers can comment on each article online.

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A) FQS 12(3) "QUALITATIVE ARCHIVES AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH METHODS"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/38

Miguel Valles (Spain), Louise Corti, Maria Tamboukou (UK), Alejandro 

Baer (Germany): Qualitative Archives and Biographical Research Methods. 

An Introduction to the FQS Special Issue

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110381

1. Re-entering the Field of Qualitative Archives and Biographical 

Research Methods

Louise Corti (UK): The European Landscape of Qualitative Social Research 

Archives: Methodological and Practical Issues

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103117

Miguel Valles (Spain): Archival and Biographical Research Sensitivity: A 

European Perspective from Spain

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110327

2. Archival and Biographical Research Projects (and Initiatives) in Six 

European Countries

Janet Holland (UK): Timescapes: Living a Qualitative Longitudinal Study
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110392

Philippe Lejeune (France): The Story of a French Life-Writing Archive: 

"Association pour l'Autobiographie et le Patrimoine Autobiographique"

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110371

Irena Medjedović (Germany): Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Interview 

Data: Objections and Experiences. Results of a German Feasibility Study

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103104

Cristina Sánchez-Carretero, Antonio Cea, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Pilar 

Martínez, Carmen Ortiz (Spain): On Blurred Borders and Interdisciplinary 

Research Teams: The Case of the "Archive of Mourning"

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103124

Dirk Schubotz, Martin Melaugh, Peter McLoughlin (Irland): Archiving 

Qualitative Data in the Context of a Society Coming out of Conflict: 

Some Lessons from Northern Ireland

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103133

Andrea Smioski (Austria): Archiving Qualitative Data: Infrastructure, 

Acquisition, Documentation, Distribution. Experiences from WISDOM, the 

Austrian Data Archive

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103181

3. Theoretical and Methodological Reflections on Qualitative Archives 

and Biographical Research Methods

Juan José Castillo (Spain): The Memory of Work and the Future of 

Industrial Heritage: New Issues Five Years Later

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110337

Rosa-Àuria Munté Ramos (Spain): The Convergence of Historical Facts and 

Literary Fiction: Jorge SEMPRÚN's Autofiction on the Holocaust

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103144

Maria Tamboukou (UK): Archive Pleasures or Whose Time Is It?
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110317

Joan Miquel Verd, Martí López Andreu (Spain): The Rewards of a 

Qualitative Approach to Life-Course Research. The Example of the Effects 

of Social Protection Policies on Career Paths

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103152

--> Single Contributions

Daniela Boehringer (Germany): Bringing Conversations to an End -- 

Examples from German Job Centers

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110348

Rainer Diaz-Bone (Switzerland): The Performativity of Qualitative Social 

Research

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103227

Lewis Goodings (UK): The Dilemma of Closeness and Distance: A Discursive 

Analysis of Wall Posting in MySpace

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103160

D. Thomas Markle, Richard Edward West, Peter J. Rich (USA): Beyond 

Transcription: Technology, Change, and Refinement of Method

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103216

Sladjana V. Nørskov, Morten Rask (Denmark): Observation of Online 

Communities: A Discussion of Online and Offline Observer Roles in 

Studying Development, Cooperation and Coordination in an Open Source 

Software Environment

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110358

--> FQS Debate: Teaching and Learning Qualitative Methods

Agnes Muehlmeyer-Mentzel, Inge Schuermann (Germany): Integrating 

Software in the Teaching of Grounded Theory Methodology

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103171

--> FQS Reviews

Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): Collective Review: Three Approaches to 

Teaching and Learning Metaphors

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103195

Cornelia Siebeck (Germany): Review Essay: Researching Place and Space in 

the Social Sciences and Cultural Studies: The Relevance of the 

Ethnographic Approach

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103203

B) FROM FORMER FQS ISSUES

Now also available in English:

Franz Breuer : The "Other" Speaks Up. When Social Science 

(Re)presentations Provoke Reactance from the Field

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102233

C) INSIDE FQS

--> "Go Open Access"- Film Series

To promote understanding of Open Access, the information platform 

open-access.net initiated a series of short films. The films (sponsored 

by the German Research Foundation, DFG) are in German and in English and 

accessible from open-access.net's YouTube channel. Have fun and help 

spread the word! (The films are licensed under CC BY 3.0 Unported.)

http://www.youtube.com/openaccessnet

--> Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference

The Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference took place 

on September 26-28 at Freie Universitaet Berlin. Videos from the plenary 

sessions will be released soon.

http://www.pkp2011.de/

D) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

4-5 November, Detroit, USA
Graduate conference "Doing Autoethnography: Here and Now"
http://doingautoethnography.com/

30 November-1 December, Milan, Italy
2nd European Conference on Online Qualitative Research
http://www.merlien.org/upcoming-events/onlinequal.html

7-9 December, Gothenburg, Sweden

Workshop "The Challenge of Qualitative Data: Standardizing Metadata 

Structures and the DDI"

http://www.iza.org/eddi11

11-14 March 2012, Achva Academic College of Education, Tel-Aviv, Israel
8th Workshop of Qualitative Research in Psychology "Building Bridges"
http://www.ph-weingarten.de/psychologie/Tagungen_Center_for_Qualitiative_Psychology.php?navanchor=1010101

18-20 April 2012, London, UK
Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section Conference 2012
http://www.bps.org.uk/events/qualitative-methods-psychology-section-conference-2012

16-19 May 2012, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

8th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry "Qualitative Inquiry 

as Global Endeavor"

http://www.icqi.org/

24-25 May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
Qualitative Research for Policy Making: 3rd Annual Conference
http://www.merlien.org/qrpm2012

1-4 August 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2nd ISA Forum of Sociology: Social Justice and Democratization 

http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/; see for the CfP, 

Research Committee Biography and Society (RC 38): 

http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/rc/rc.php?n=RC38, for 

Abstract submissions http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/

E) LINKS

Qualitative Methods in Psychology section, British Psychological Society 

on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Qualitative-Methods-in-Psychology/140366999374345 

F) GRANTS

Request for Research Proposals on Advanced German and European Studies

The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to 

one year of research support at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. It is 

open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, 

including historians working on modern and contemporary German and 

European history.

The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or 

permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be 

full-time graduate students enrolled at a North American university who 

have achieved ABD status by the time the proposed research stay in 

Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian Ph.D.s who have 

received their doctorates within the past two calendar years.

The Berlin Program is based at, funded and administered by the Freie 

Universitaet Berlin. The program's publicity and selection process is 

organized in cooperation with the German Studies Association (GSA).

Deadline: December 1, 2011; for more complete information and an 

application form, visit our website at

http://www.fu-berlin.de/bprogram or send an email to 

bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de

G) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

September Issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-11.htm

The Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index
http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering

Enhancing Open Access to Grey Literature: Launch of the OpenGrey Repository
http://www.opengrey.eu/

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Newsletter
http://project.oapen.org/index.php/news

Conferences

24-30 October, worlwide
Open Access Week 2011
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Events_celebrating_Open_Access_Week#2011

26-27 October, Berlin

eSciDoc Days 2011, organized by Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) and 

FIZ Karlsruhe

https://www.escidoc.org/JSPWiki/en/ESciDocDays

9-10 November, Washington DC, USA

Berlin 9 Open Access Conference: The Impact of Open Access on Research 

and Scholarship

http://www.berlin9.org/

Texts

Chris Armbruster: Implementing Open Access Policy: First Case Studies. 

Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science, 3(4)

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1927772

Creative Commons: The Power of Open
http://thepowerofopen.org/

Fred Friend: Open Access Business Models for Research Funders and 

Universities

http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=459

League of European Research Universities (LERU): The LERU Roadmap 

Towards Open Access

http://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default/files/LERU%20AP8_Open%20Access.pdf

George Monbiot: Academic Publishers Make Murdoch Look Like a Socialist. 

The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist

Richard Poynder: Interview "Open Access by Numbers"
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2011/06/open-access-by-numbers.html

Richard Poynder: Interviewing Peter Suber, "Leader of the Leaderless"
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2011/07/peter-suber-leader-of-leaderless.html

Journals/Newsletters

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/

Bentham Open Access
http://www.benthamscience.com/open/

Comparative Population Studies, 35(3)
http://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/issue/view/7

First Monday, 16(9)
http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

Journal of Integrated Social Sciences, 2(1)
http://www.jiss.org/articles/

Journal of Visual Literacy
http://www.ohio.edu/visualliteracy/

LIS Critique journal, 4(1)
http://eprints.rclis.org/bitstream/10760/16040/6/cb.vol4.no1.pdf

Mother Pelican. A Journal of Sustainable Human Development, 7(9)
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n09page1.html

Oral History Forum d'histoire orale, 31
http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohf/issue/view/37

Qualitative Sociology Review, 7(2)
http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/volume19.php

The Qualitative Report, 16(4)
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR16-4/index.html

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