FQS-Newsletter November 2006

Dear All,

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

Articles, Published in FQS
- in former FQS issues, now available in additional languages
- in November 2006
Inside FQS
New Project: "German Online Information Portal On Open Access Issues", funded by the German Science Foundation
Conferences and Workshops
Links
Open Access News

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS

1. From Former FQS Issues

Thanks to David López, another text—originally only published in FQS 6(2) in the English language—is now also available in Spanish:

Participant Observation as a Data Collection Method
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-43-e.htm

La observación participante como método de recolección de datos
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-43-s.htm

2. Published in November 2006

Lisa Cone (USA): Resilience in Russian Immigrant Stories: An Alternative to Deficiency Models. Review Essay: Dennis Shasha & Marina Shron (2002). Red Blues: Voices from the Last Wave of Russian Immigrants
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-19-e.htm

Elke Fein (Germany) & Marie-laure Florea (France): Interiors and Exteriors in Discourse Analysis and the Sociology of Science. Conference Essay: Discourse Analysis in Germany and France: Recent Developments in Linguistics and the Social Sciences
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-22-e.htm

Matthias Gross (Germany): Review, Niels C. Taubert (2006). Produktive Anarchie? Netzwerke freier Softwareentwicklung [Productive Anarchy? Networks of Open Source Software Development]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-10-e.htm

Aldo Merlino & Alejandra Martínez (Argentina): Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Building and Interpreting Clusters from Grounded Theory and Discourse Analysis
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-21-e.htm

Viera Pirker (Germany): Review, Angela Kaupp (2005). Junge Frauen erzaehlen ihre Glaubensgeschichte. Eine qualitativ-empirische Studie zur Rekonstruktion der narrativen religioesen Identitaet katholischer junger Frauen [Young Women Tell Their Story of Faith. A Qualitative-empirical Study on Reconstructing the Narrative Religious Identity of Young Catholic Women]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-18-e.htm

Elisabeth Rangosch-Schneck (Germany): "... There's so much going on unspoken in the back of the mind ..."—The Use of Repertory Grid Technique as a Qualitative Heuristic Research Design to Understand Teachers' Perceptions of Parents
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-9-e.htm

Dietmar Rost (Germany): Review, Verena Dreissig (2005). Interkulturelle Kommunikation im Krankenhaus. Eine Studie zur Interaktion zwischen Klinikpersonal und Patienten mit Migrationshintergrund [Intercultural Communication in the Hospital. A Study of Hospital Staff Interaction with Migrant Patients]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-5-e.htm

B) INSIDE FQS: New Project "German Online Information Portal On Open Access Issues"

Since September 2006 the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) funds the implementation of a nation-wide online information portal on Open Access issues that is operated cooperatively by the Universities of Bielefeld, Goettingen, Constance and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, with support from DINI (German Initiative for Networked Information). The platform is intended to inform scientists, their professional societies, university administrations and the interested public comprehensively on objectives and use of Open Access, and support them with practical assistance on its implementation in practice.

Open Access Publications are conceived as scientific publications that are worldwide freely available on the Internet. The Open Access Movement's objective is the better utilisation of this form of publication in order to maximise the diffusion and usage of scientific knowledge. As recent studies demonstrate (http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html), the reception of Open Access publications generally is already several times higher than that of traditional publications behind cost barriers. For individual authors as well as their institutions, this translates into a significantly better "visibility" within the international scientific community. The signing of the "Berlin Declaration on open access to scientific knowledge" (http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/signatories.html) by numerous national and international science organisations and funding bodies and a growing number of Universities underlines the importance for Open Access for Science Policy in general.

A DFG survey on author's experiences with Open Access (http://www.dfg.de/en/...) showed that open access publication opportunities are still underutilized, but found much willingness to actively further Open Access in Germany. Therefore the DFG, as a cosignatory of the "Berlin Declaration", like many other national funding organisations, strongly encourages all project investigators to publish in refereed Open Access journals or to make available digital copies of their work on Open Access servers.

Until now Information on Open Access is largely produced in an uncoordinated way and is mostly scattered widely throughout the Internet, much of it is dependent upon the local personal commitment of individuals. This fact is largely responsible for the discrepancy between the growing international significance of Open Access on one hand and the comparatively small publicity and little practice with German scientists on the other hand.

The new information portal sets out to counter this development in Germany. The offer addresses primarily scientific authors, university administrations and scholarly societies. Current deficits in information and use within the German Higher Education Landscape are sought to be removed by the concise presentation of relevant information on open access issues targeted to specific audiences. The information platform will also concentrate on concrete recommendations for action, know how and argumentation aids as well as the sharing of practical experience and all sort of information materials on Open Access.

http://www.open-access.net/

C) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

Bournemouth University, UK
18-19 January, Masterclass "The Ambit of Biographical Research", presented by Robert Miller, 22-23 March, Masterclass "Systematic Review and Synthesis of Qualitative Research", presented by Margarete Sandelowski
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Bournemouth-07.pdf (PDF, 96 KB)

16-18 February, Bildungszentrum Erkner, Berlin, Germany
Meeting "Qualitative Approaches in the Field of Psychology", organized by Center for Qualitative Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
http://www.qualitative-psychologie.de/index.php?article_id=20&clang=1

24-25 March, Shanghai, China
The 2nd Grounded Theory Methodology Trouble-shooting Seminar in China
http://www.groundedtheory.com/spring.html

13-14 April, Vila Nova de Sto Andre, Portugal
International Conference "Advances in Tourism Economics"
http://www.ate2007.com/

18-20 April, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
CAQDAS 07 Conference "Advances in Qualitative Computing"
http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference/conference07.htm

3-16 June, Rovereto, Italy
IHSRC 2007 International Human Science Research Conference "New frontiers of phenomenology. Beyond postmodernism in empirical research"
http://www.unitn.it/events/ihsrc07/

3-5 September, PJ Hilton, Malaysia
4th International Qualitative Research Convention "Doing Qualitative Research: Processes, Issues and Challenges", Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia
http://qrc2007-qram.um.edu.my/

3-6 September, Glasgow, Scotland
CfP "Using Qualitative Research: The Relevance and Applicability of Micro Methods", ESA RN Qualitative Methods
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/qual.htm

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.

D) LINKS

Job Opportunities for Ethnographic Researchers: Swiss-based SolutionSync GmbH, an internationally recognized consumer research firm that helps companies create meaningful ideas, designs and experiences that consumers and customers crave, has an opening for ethnographic researchers. The positions are based in Switzerland and Germany.
http://www.solutionsync.com/Career-Opportunities.html.

Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section, British Psychological Association
http://www.bps.org.uk/qmip/

IMISCOE/HERMES Training Messenger On International Migration, Ethnicity and Social Cohesion
http://www.messenger.hermes-researchers.net/

New Thematic Guide on Youth Culture, ESDS Qualidata
http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/news/newsdetail.asp?id=1651

CAQDAS Networking Project: Updates and new workshops with vacancies
http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/index.htm

Jennifer Howard: Oral History Under Review, Chronicle of Higfher Education, Nov 10
http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i12/12a01401.htm

Report "Social Sciences in Europe", new edition
http://www.esf.org/publication/224/SocialSciencesinEurope.pdf (PDF, 620 KB)

European Education Policy Network: Gateway to Research into European Policy on Education
http://www.educationpolicy.eu/

Foucault versus Chomsky debate LIVE on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=foucault+and+chomsky

Praat version 4.5 (Doing Phonetics by Computer)
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

November SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-06.htm

Online Access to Research in the Environment
http://www.oaresciences.org/en/

Manchester Metropolitan University's institutional open access repository
http://www.e-space.mmu.ac.uk/e-space/

New Zurich Open Repository and Archive
http://www.zora.unizh.ch/zora/

Report of the Task Force on Open Access publishing in Particle physics
http://library.cern.ch/OATaskForce_public.pdf

Conferences

11-14, Stockholm
2007 Annual IATUL Conference "Global Access to Science"
http://www.lib.kth.se/iatul2007/call_for_papers.asp

11-13 July, Vancouver
First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/493

Presentations and a "National Open Access Policy for Developing Countries" available from the Workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2-3 November 2006
http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/

Texts

Armbruster, Chris (2006): Cyberscience and the Knowledge-based Economy, Open Access and Trade Publishing: From Contradiction to Compatibility with Nonexclusive Copyright Licensing
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=938119

Harnad, Stevan (2006): Promoting open access to research, The Hindu, Online edition of India's National Newspaper, Nov 01, 2006
http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/01/stories/2006110104991100.htm

Harnad, Stevan (2006): Research Journals Are Already Just Quality Controllers and Certifiers: So What Are "Overlay Journals"?
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/171-guid.html

Harris, Siân (2006): Open Access Helps When Disciplines Overlap. Interview with Mark Cassarabout open access, new technologies and why a physics publisher is interested in biology
http://www.researchinformation.info/ridec06jan07product_focus.html

Journals/Newsletters

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

CEU Political Science Journal. The Graduate Student Review, 4
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/PolSciJournal/issues.html

Chinese Medicine, new
http://www.cmjournal.org/

ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 6(3)
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/index.htm

First Monday, 11(11)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_11/

Living Reviews in European Governance
http://europeangovernance.livingreviews.org/

M/C—Media and Culture, 9(5)
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

Studies in Language and Capitalism, new
http://www.languageandcapitalism.info/

Surveillance & Society, 4(1/2)
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/journalv4i1.htm

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