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>>>>> Dear All, I would like to inform you that FQS 12(3) -- "Qualitative Archives and Biographical Research Methods (http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/38), edited by Miguel S. Valles, Louise Corti, Maria Tamboukou and Alejandro Baer -- is available online (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for former issues). In addition to articles relating to "Qualitative Archives and Biographical Research Methods", FQS 12(3) provides a number of selected single contributions (f.e. on performativity, transcription, and the observation of online communities), as well as an article, belonging to the FQS Debate on Teaching and Learning Qualitative Methods and to FQS Reviews. Enjoy reading! Katja Mruck Ps: FQS is an open-access journal, so all articles are available free of charge (see http://open-access.net/de_en/homepage/ for additional information about open access). This newsletter is sent to 14,789 registered readers; registered readers can comment on each article online. ------------------------------------------ A) FQS 12(3) "QUALITATIVE ARCHIVES AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH METHODS" http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/38 Miguel Valles (Spain), Louise Corti, Maria Tamboukou (UK), Alejandro Baer (Germany): Qualitative Archives and Biographical Research Methods. An Introduction to the FQS Special Issue http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110381 1. Re-entering the Field of Qualitative Archives and Biographical Research Methods Louise Corti (UK): The European Landscape of Qualitative Social Research Archives: Methodological and Practical Issues http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103117 Miguel Valles (Spain): Archival and Biographical Research Sensitivity: A European Perspective from Spain http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110327 2. Archival and Biographical Research Projects (and Initiatives) in Six European Countries Janet Holland (UK): Timescapes: Living a Qualitative Longitudinal Study http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110392 Philippe Lejeune (France): The Story of a French Life-Writing Archive: "Association pour l'Autobiographie et le Patrimoine Autobiographique" http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110371 Irena Medjedović (Germany): Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Interview Data: Objections and Experiences. Results of a German Feasibility Study http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103104 Cristina Sánchez-Carretero, Antonio Cea, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Pilar Martínez, Carmen Ortiz (Spain): On Blurred Borders and Interdisciplinary Research Teams: The Case of the "Archive of Mourning" http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103124 Dirk Schubotz, Martin Melaugh, Peter McLoughlin (Irland): Archiving Qualitative Data in the Context of a Society Coming out of Conflict: Some Lessons from Northern Ireland http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103133 Andrea Smioski (Austria): Archiving Qualitative Data: Infrastructure, Acquisition, Documentation, Distribution. Experiences from WISDOM, the Austrian Data Archive http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103181 3. Theoretical and Methodological Reflections on Qualitative Archives and Biographical Research Methods Juan José Castillo (Spain): The Memory of Work and the Future of Industrial Heritage: New Issues Five Years Later http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110337 Rosa-Àuria Munté Ramos (Spain): The Convergence of Historical Facts and Literary Fiction: Jorge SEMPRÚN's Autofiction on the Holocaust http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103144 Maria Tamboukou (UK): Archive Pleasures or Whose Time Is It? http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110317 Joan Miquel Verd, Martí López Andreu (Spain): The Rewards of a Qualitative Approach to Life-Course Research. The Example of the Effects of Social Protection Policies on Career Paths http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103152 --> Single Contributions Daniela Boehringer (Germany): Bringing Conversations to an End -- Examples from German Job Centers http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110348 Rainer Diaz-Bone (Switzerland): The Performativity of Qualitative Social Research http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103227 Lewis Goodings (UK): The Dilemma of Closeness and Distance: A Discursive Analysis of Wall Posting in MySpace http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103160 D. Thomas Markle, Richard Edward West, Peter J. Rich (USA): Beyond Transcription: Technology, Change, and Refinement of Method http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103216 Sladjana V. Nørskov, Morten Rask (Denmark): Observation of Online Communities: A Discussion of Online and Offline Observer Roles in Studying Development, Cooperation and Coordination in an Open Source Software Environment http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110358 --> FQS Debate: Teaching and Learning Qualitative Methods Agnes Muehlmeyer-Mentzel, Inge Schuermann (Germany): Integrating Software in the Teaching of Grounded Theory Methodology http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103171 --> FQS Reviews Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): Collective Review: Three Approaches to Teaching and Learning Metaphors http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103195 Cornelia Siebeck (Germany): Review Essay: Researching Place and Space in the Social Sciences and Cultural Studies: The Relevance of the Ethnographic Approach http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1103203 B) FROM FORMER FQS ISSUES Now also available in English: Franz Breuer : The "Other" Speaks Up. When Social Science (Re)presentations Provoke Reactance from the Field http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102233 C) INSIDE FQS --> "Go Open Access"- Film Series To promote understanding of Open Access, the information platform open-access.net initiated a series of short films. The films (sponsored by the German Research Foundation, DFG) are in German and in English and accessible from open-access.net's YouTube channel. Have fun and help spread the word! (The films are licensed under CC BY 3.0 Unported.) http://www.youtube.com/openaccessnet --> Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference The Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference took place on September 26-28 at Freie Universitaet Berlin. Videos from the plenary sessions will be released soon. http://www.pkp2011.de/ D) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 4-5 November, Detroit, USA Graduate conference "Doing Autoethnography: Here and Now" http://doingautoethnography.com/ 30 November-1 December, Milan, Italy 2nd European Conference on Online Qualitative Research http://www.merlien.org/upcoming-events/onlinequal.html 7-9 December, Gothenburg, Sweden Workshop "The Challenge of Qualitative Data: Standardizing Metadata Structures and the DDI" http://www.iza.org/eddi11 11-14 March 2012, Achva Academic College of Education, Tel-Aviv, Israel 8th Workshop of Qualitative Research in Psychology "Building Bridges" http://www.ph-weingarten.de/psychologie/Tagungen_Center_for_Qualitiative_Psychology.php?navanchor=1010101 18-20 April 2012, London, UK Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section Conference 2012 http://www.bps.org.uk/events/qualitative-methods-psychology-section-conference-2012 16-19 May 2012, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA 8th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry "Qualitative Inquiry as Global Endeavor" http://www.icqi.org/ 24-25 May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal Qualitative Research for Policy Making: 3rd Annual Conference http://www.merlien.org/qrpm2012 1-4 August 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2nd ISA Forum of Sociology: Social Justice and Democratization http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/; see for the CfP, Research Committee Biography and Society (RC 38): http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/rc/rc.php?n=RC38, for Abstract submissions http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/ E) LINKS Qualitative Methods in Psychology section, British Psychological Society on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Qualitative-Methods-in-Psychology/140366999374345 F) GRANTS Request for Research Proposals on Advanced German and European Studies The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to one year of research support at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on modern and contemporary German and European history. The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students enrolled at a North American university who have achieved ABD status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian Ph.D.s who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. The Berlin Program is based at, funded and administered by the Freie Universitaet Berlin. The program's publicity and selection process is organized in cooperation with the German Studies Association (GSA). Deadline: December 1, 2011; for more complete information and an application form, visit our website at http://www.fu-berlin.de/bprogram or send an email to [log in to unmask] G) OPEN ACCESS NEWS September Issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-11.htm The Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering Enhancing Open Access to Grey Literature: Launch of the OpenGrey Repository http://www.opengrey.eu/ OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Newsletter http://project.oapen.org/index.php/news Conferences 24-30 October, worlwide Open Access Week 2011 http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Events_celebrating_Open_Access_Week#2011 26-27 October, Berlin eSciDoc Days 2011, organized by Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) and FIZ Karlsruhe https://www.escidoc.org/JSPWiki/en/ESciDocDays 9-10 November, Washington DC, USA Berlin 9 Open Access Conference: The Impact of Open Access on Research and Scholarship http://www.berlin9.org/ Texts Chris Armbruster: Implementing Open Access Policy: First Case Studies. Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science, 3(4) http://ssrn.com/abstract=1927772 Creative Commons: The Power of Open http://thepowerofopen.org/ Fred Friend: Open Access Business Models for Research Funders and Universities http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=459 League of European Research Universities (LERU): The LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access http://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default/files/LERU%20AP8_Open%20Access.pdf George Monbiot: Academic Publishers Make Murdoch Look Like a Socialist. 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A Journal of Sustainable Human Development, 7(9) http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n09page1.html Oral History Forum d'histoire orale, 31 http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohf/issue/view/37 Qualitative Sociology Review, 7(2) http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/volume19.php The Qualitative Report, 16(4) http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR16-4/index.html --- FQS -- Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627) http://www.qualitative-research.net/ English / German / Spanish