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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