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Dear All,
Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news:
A) Articles, Published in FQS in December 2005
B) Conferences and Workshops
C) Links
D) 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
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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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FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627)
English -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm
German -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm
Spanish -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s.htm
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Directory of Open Access Journals:
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