FQS-Newsletter June 2004

Dear All,

Today I would like to inform you about the following topics:

Loss of Our Colleague Angelika Birck
Articles, published in June 2004
Requests and comments from our readers
Conferences
Open Access News

All the best,

Katja Mruck

A) LOSS OF OUR COLLEAGUE ANGELIKA BIRCK

Our author Angelika Birck has passed away. She died suddenly on June 7, 2004 at the age of 32. Her death moved all of us very deeply. She dedicated her professional and personal efforts to victims of violence and torture.

To FQS she contributed the text entitled "Laura's doctorate" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03birck-e.htm) under the section FQS Debates "Doing successful research in the social sciences—Ethnography of the Career Politics of an Occupational Group" [Vol. 4, No. 2 (May 2003)]. She described the text as "literary and fictitious"—which it of course wasn't. It describes her experience in details while trying to earn her doctorate in the bureaucratic jungle of universities in two countries. When I learned about her troubles I encouraged her to publish a literary account of her story in our FQS Debate on ethnography in the social sciences. Now facing her sudden death and short life span this account is even more meaningful. We are glad and proud to have her as an author.

Angelika Bircks's long-time life companion—Dinu Gherman—has set up a web site in her memory: http://python.net/~gherman/AngelikaBirck.html.

Franz Breuer on behalf of the Editorial Staff

B) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2004

Andrea D. Buehrmann (Germany): Review Note, Alexander Bogner, Beate Littig & Wolfgang Menz (Eds.) (2002). Das Experteninterview. Theorie, Methode, Anwendung [The Expert Interview: Theory, Method and Application]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-1-e.htm

Dagmar Hoffmann (Germany): Review Note, Nathalie Iványi & Jo Reichertz (Eds.) (2003). Liebe (wie) im Fernsehen. Eine wissenssoziologische Analyse [Love (like) on Television. An Analysis Based on the Sociology of Knowledge]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-8-e.htm

Anja Naumann (Germany): Review Note, Reinhard Keil-Slawik & Michael Kerres (Eds.) (2003). Wirkungen und Wirksamkeit neuer Medien in der Bildung [The Impact and Effectiveness of New Media in Education]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-2-e.htm

Eduardo Sarquis Soares (Brazil): Talking about Challenges of Being a Teacher. Review Essay, Woff-Michael Roth (2002). Being and Becoming in the Classroom
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-5-e.htm

Wilhelm Schwendemann (Germany): Review Note, Arnulf Deppermann (2001). Gespraeche analysieren. Eine Einfuehrung [Analyzing Conversations. An Introduction]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-3-e.htm

Volker Wedekind (South Africa): Review Note, Ardra L. Cole & J. Gary Knowles (Eds.) (2001). Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-4-e.htm

C) REQUESTS AND COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS

Comment on "Evaluation and Adjudication of Research Proposals: Vagaries and Politics of Funding" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-02/3-02roth-e.htm) by Wolff-Michael Roth

D) CONFERENCES

6-7 April 2005, London South Bank University, UK: International Conference "Whither Social Capital? Past, Present and Future"
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/families/Call_for_Papers.shtml (Call for Papers)

See http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm for additional Conference Announcements.

E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

June SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-04.htm

New SPARC/ARL/ACRL Brochure on Open Access http://www.createchange.org/resources/OpenAccess.pdf (246 KB)

Peter Suber: "Open Access Overview. Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research"
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Australia wants to make government-funded research more accessible: "The Government believes that it has a major policy interest in improving the accessibility of research. It is therefore decided to pursue the agendas of making research quality more apparent, and research results more accessible, in parallel … In terms of accessibility of research the NSCF [National Scholarly Communications Forum] constituents will work with international partners on a number of fronts especially to develop the concept of 'public funding, public knowledge, public access'." (Open Access News, posted by Peter Suber)
http://www.humanities.org.au/NSCF/Press%20release.pdf (49 KB)

New journals from SciELO, a major source of Open Access literature from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain
http://www.scielo.org/

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