FQS-Newsletter July 2004

Dear All,

Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news:

• Articles, published in July 2004

• Requests and comments from our readers

• Conferences

• Open Access News

Wishing you a wonderful summer!

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN JULY 2004

Stefan Gradmann, Katja Mruck & Maximilian Stempfhuber (Germany): Refining the Semantics of Open Access
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-9-e.htm

Andreas Klaerner (Germany): Review Note, Sylvia Keim (2003). "So richtig deutsch wird man nie sein ..."—Junge Migrantinnen und Migranten in Deutschland. Zwischen Integration und Ausgrenzung ["You Will Never Be Truly German ... "--Young Migrants in Germany. Between Integration and Exclusion]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-13-e.htm

Brian Roberts (UK): Political Activism and Narrative Analysis: The Biographical Template and The Meat Pot
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-10-e.htm

Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Cognitive Phenomenology: Marriage of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-12-e.htm

Mike Steffen Schaefer (Germany): Review Note: Andreas Loesch (2001). Genomprojekt und Moderne. Soziologische Analysen des bioethischen Diskurses [Genome Project and Modernity. Sociological Analyses of the Bioethical Discourse]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-15-e.htm

B) REQUESTS AND COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS

Comment on "Grounded Theory: The Sound of Silence"

Comment on Simmons & Gregory: "Grounded Action: Achieving Optimal and Sustainable Change"

C) CONFERENCES

The Program of the conference "The State of the Art of Qualitative Social Research in Europe", taking place on September 9th and 10th 2004 at the Technical University of Berlin, is available online.
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/ESA_Workshop_Program.pdf

On April 18 - 22 2005, the 19th International Conference "Learning Organization in a Learning World" is taking place in Bangkok, Thailand.
http://www.kmutt.ac.th/ICLORD2005/index.htm

See http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm for additional Conference Announcements.

D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

June 27 2004 has been the 10th anniversary of "Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing. An Internet Discussion about Scientific and Scholarly Journals and Their Future" by Stevan Harnad, which was first posted June 27 1994.
http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/sub01.html

The July SPARC Open Access Newsletter is available online; see: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/07-02-04.htm. Especially imortant news:

"(US) The US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee recommends that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide free public access to research articles resulting from NIH-funded research."
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_07_11_fosblogarchive.html#a108990349491867573

"(UK) The UK Government Science and Technology Committee's recommends that all UK higher education institutions establish institutional repositories on which their published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of charge, online."
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm

A new open-access journal—Psycho-Social-Medicine (p-s-m)—was started on 1 July 2004 as the first specialty journal on the German Medical Science platform. It is edited on an interdisciplinary level by ten German scientific societies from the areas of behavioral medicine, medical psychology and sociology, psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and psychotherapy.
http://www.egms.de/en/journals/psm/index.shtml

Another open-access journal, eventually interesting for some of you is "eCOMMUNITY: International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction".
http://www.ecommunity-journal.com/journal.php

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