Dear All,
The news from QSR International is – NVivo 7!
QSR will launch late this year a very new product. It takes the strengths of N6, (the latest NUD*IST), and NVivo 2, and adds new features and tools that will allow researchers to work in new ways.
To find out more, visit http://www.qsrinternational.com/products/productoverview/NVivo_7.htm and click on the link to the latest edition of QSR’s NSight newsletter.
NVivo 7 is the fulfillment of major goals here at QSR - to offer the strengths of both products in one, which would also break barriers to project languages and project size and extend the tools for traditional subtle qualitative analysis.
Where and when can you see NVivo 7?
The first demonstration of NVivo 7 will be at the annual conference on “Strategies in Qualitative Research using QSR Software” .This year’s conference will be held at the University of Durham 21-24th September 2005. The call for papers is now on the website at http://www.dur.ac.uk/strategies.conference/.
There will be a CAQDAS presentation by Tom Richards and myself on 27 September, 2005 – go to the CAQDAS website for details.
QSR and its network of trainers will hold introductory workshops in NVivo 7 early in 2006 in Australia, North America and UK. Watch the QSR Forum and its Calendar for details http://forums.qsrinternational.com/.
When will NVivo 7 be available?
Advance orders will be taken later in 2005 and the product will ship in the first quarter of 2006. Further announcements will be made at www.qsrinternational.com.
Training the trainers for NVivo 7
The first trainers’ event will be on September 20, 2005, at Durham.
QSR’s annual trainer training week will be held in Melbourne from 28 – 29 November. This year’s event will be restricted to those already training in QSR software, and places are restricted. There will be events for new trainers in the US, UK and Australia in early 2006. To reserve your place or for more information on NVivo 7 training email [log in to unmask].
And what else is news?
Sage has just published my new text book, Handling Qualitative Data. It’s written for those inside and outside academia who want practical advice on doing justice to data, especially if they are doing it with software. There are tutorials for working with NVivo alongside each chapter on Sage’s website http://www.sagepub.co.uk/richards. Tutorials for NVivo 7 will be there in 2006.
Using QSR’s Forum
QSR’s Forum is now web-based. Discussions, questions and answers, software suggestions and a history of past debates are at http://forums.qsrinternational.com/ Click on the Calendar to see details of events worldwide.
With warmest wishes for this year’s researching,
Lyn
Lyn Richards,
Director, Research Services, QSR.
(Ph) +61 (03) 9840-1100. (Fax) +61 (03) 9840-1500
(Snail) Second floor, 651 Doncaster Rd.,
Doncaster, Vic 3108, Australia.
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