FQS-Newsletter December 2005

Dear All,

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

Articles, Published in FQS in December 2005
Conferences and Workshops
Links
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 2005: the members of our Editorial Board and Staff (namely Roni Berger, Franz Breuer, César A. Cisneros Puebla, Robert Faux, Kip Jones, Carlos Koelbl, Wolfgang Kraus, Heiner Legewie, Marilyn Lichtman, Philipp Mayring, David Rennie, Jo Reichertz, Wolff-Michael Roth, Rudolf Schmitt, Juergen Straub, Clemens Wischermann) and Tony Adams, Robert J. Anthony, Rainer Diaz-Bone, Dietmar Rost, Bernt Schnettler, Gerold Scholz, and Hella von Unger.

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

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN DECEMBER 2005

Michael Dick (Germany): The Repertory Grid Interview as a Method of Cooperative Research. Review Essay: Martin Fromm (2004). Introduction to the Repertory Grid Interview
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-6-e.htm

Rainer Diriwaechter & Jaan Valsiner (USA): Qualitative Developmental Research Methods in their Historical and Epistemological Contexts
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-8-e.htm

Megan K. Foley (USA): Dialogue and Power in Parent-Child Communication. Review Essay: Michelle A. Miller-Day (2004). Communication among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters: A Qualitative Study of Maternal Relationships
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-12-e.htm

Florian Kohlbacher (Austria): The Use of Qualitative Content Analysis in Case Study Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-21-e.htm

Ines Langemeyer (Germany): Contradictions in Expansive Learning: Towards a Critical Analysis of Self-dependent Forms of Learning in Relation to Contemporary Socio-technological
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-12-e.htm

Constantinos N. Phellas (Cyprus). Review: Keith F. Punch: Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-4-e.htm

Juergen Rausch (Switzerland): Review: David Lohmann (2003). Das Bielefelder Diakonie-Management-Modell [The Bielefeld Deaconry Management Model]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-35-e.htm

Wilhelm Schwendemann (Germany): Review: Cornelia Schweppe (Ed.) (2003). Qualitative Forschung in der Sozialpaedagogik [Qualitative Research in Social Pedagogy]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-8-e.htm

Stefanie Vavti (Austria): "We are Kanaltaler!"—Regional and local identities in the quadrolingual Valcanale in Italy
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-34-e.htm

Till Westermayer (Germany): Review: Karl H. Hoerning & Julia Reuter (Eds.) (2004). Doing Culture. Neue Positionen zum Verhaeltnis von Kultur und sozialer Praxis [Doing Culture. New Positions on the Culture-Practice Relation]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-10-e.htm

B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

24-26 January, Center for Teaching for Social Justice. University of California-Santa Barbara, USA
Videoconference "Thematic School: Ethnography in Education: Language, Culture and Complex Dynamic Systems"
http://www.education.ucsb.edu/thematicschool/

2-5 April, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
12th International Qualitative Health Research Conference QHR 2006 "Understanding differing perspectives in health and health Care", abstract deadline extended to January 20, 2006
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/QHR2006.cfm

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) for additional Conference Announcements.

C) LINKS

Online QDA website, free resource developed for those needing support with qualitative data analysis (QDA) and those learning to use a Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) package
http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/

Praat: doing phonetics by computer, version 4.4
http://www.praat.org/

Evaluation Center: Online glossaries of evaluation terms
http://www.tecathsri.org/links.asp#EvaluationGlossaries

Petra M. Boynton: The research companion. A practical guide for the social and health sciences, forum
http://www.psypress.co.uk/boynton/forum

ATLAS.ti online community "The forum"
http://forum.atlasti.com/

D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

December SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-05.htm

OA Librarian
http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/

Ukrainian Parliament (Verhovna Rada) passed resolution on recommendations of parliamentary hearing on developing information society in Ukraine where open access is called one of the priorities in developing information society in Ukraine (from BOAI Forum, Dec 22).
http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=3175%2D15 (Ukrainian version of this resolution)

UK Parliament (Westminster Hall) debate on the report of the Science and Technology Committee's report "Scientific Publishing: Free for all?"
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?d=2005-12-15

42 Fellows of the Royal Society (including 5 Nobel Laureates) signed an Open Letter to Lord Martin Rees expressing concern about the Society's statement on open access
http://www.frsopenletter.org/

Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) introduced the American Center for Cures Act of 2005 into the U.S. Senate that would mandate OA to publicly-funded medical research within four months of its publication
http://lieberman.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=249566

Lund University signed the Institutional Self-Archiving Policy Register
http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

Conferences

24-25 April, Star Hotel, Lund, Sweden
Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication: Beyond Declarations—The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication
http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2006/

Texts

ALPSP Publications: The facts about Open Access
http://www.alpsp.org/publications/pub11.htm

Antelman, K., Bakkalbasi, N., Goodman, D., Hajjem, C. & Harnad, S.: Evaluation of Algorithm Performance on Identifying OA. Technical Report, North Carolina State University Libraries, North Carolina State University.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11689/

Bailey, C.W.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 60: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
The Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm
The Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm

Drenth, J.P.H.: A watershed for the Netherlands Journal of Medicine: open internet access
http://www.njmonline.nl/njm/getpdf.php?t=a&id=414 (PDF file, 148 KB)

Journals/newsletter

China and Eurasia Forum (CEF) Quarterly, November 2005
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/CEF_quarterly.htm

Demographic Research alert (1249)
http://www.demographic-research.org/

European Education: Issues and Studies, CfP Fall 2006 issue
http://europeaneducation.org/

First Monday, 10(2)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/

Flusser Studies, 1(1)
http://www.flusserstudies.net/pag/current.htm

International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction (formerly eCOMMUNITY), 3(2)
http://www.ijma-journal.com/issues/issue/3/2

Preventing Chronic Disease, 3(1)
http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/

Solidarity & Sustainability, 1(8)
http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisust08.html

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