FQS-Newsletter October 2006

Dear All,

Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news:

Articles, Published in FQS
- in former FQS issues, now available in additional languages
- in October 2006
Inside FQS
- CfP FQS 8(3) "Virtual Ethnography"
- Book reviewers needed
- Documentation 2nd Berlin Meeting on Qualitative Methods available
Conferences and Workshops
Links
Open Access News

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS

1. From Former FQS Issues

Thanks to one of our Columbian readers, David López, the following text—originally only published in FQS 6(2) in the English language—is now also available in Spanish:

Providing (Online) Resources and Services for Qualitative Researchers: Challenges and Potentials
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-38-e.htm

Proporcionar (en línea) recursos y servicios para investigadores cualitativos: desafíos y posibilidades
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-38-s.htm

2. Published in October 2006

Ute Karl (Germany): Metaphors as Traces of Discourses in Biographical Texts
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-3-e.htm

Karen V. Lee (Canada): Confessing Takes Courage
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-6-e.htm

Juergen Rausch (Switzerland): Review, Karin Reiber (2005). Organisation im Spiegel der Regula Benedicti [Organisation in Reflection of Regula Benedicti]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-7-e.htm

Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): Review, Nicole Hroch (2005). Metaphern des Umweltmanagements [Metaphors of Environmental Management]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-8-e.htm

B) INSIDE FQS

1. CFP FQS 8(3) "Virtual Ethnography"

FQS 8(3)—edited by Daniel Domínguez, Anne Beaulieu, Adolfo Estalella, Edgar Gómez, Rosie Read and Bernt Schnettler—will be dedicated to "Virtual Ethnography". The CfP is available at:

http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/CfP_07-3-e.htm (English)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/CfP_07-3-d.htm (German)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/CfP_07-3-s.htm (Spanish)

Deadline for submission of papers will be February 15, 2007.

2. Book Reviewers Needed

Book reviewers needed for new books on action research, historical research, ethnodrama, qualitative research (design, writing/presenting), etc.

Please contact Guenter Mey (mey@qualitative-forschung.de) if you are interested to review one of the following books for FQS. Pls. check the "Information on Reviewing Media Units" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/book-reviews/medieneinheiten-e.htm) first!

Catharine Marshall & Gretchen B. Rossman(2006).
Designing Qualitative Research (4th ed.)
(London: Sage, 262 pages)
Peter Reason & Hilary Bradbury (2006).
Handbook of Action Research (Concise Paperback Edition)
(London: Sage, 362 pages)
Johnny Saldana (Ed.) (2005).
Ethnodrama. An Anthology of Reality Theatre
(London: AltaMira, 230 pages)
David Silverman (2006).
Interpreting Qualitative Data (3rd. ed.)
(London: Sage, 428 pages)
Angela Thody (2006).
Writing an Presenting Research
(London: Sage, 264 pages)
Jack Whitehead & Jean McNiff (2006).
Action Research: Living Theory
(London: Sage, 182 pages)

3. Documentation 2nd Berlin Meeting on Qualitative Methods available

The documentation of the 2nd Berlin Meeting on Qualitative Methods—texts, videos, photos, posters—is now available at http://www.berliner-methodentreffen.de/material/2006/materialien_2006.php in German.

C) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

23-25 March 2007, Yale University, USA
Workshop "Violence in Eurasia: Historical and Contemporary Approaches", organized by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Yale_2007.pdf (PDF file, 3 MB)

29-31 March 2007, Queen's College, Cambridge, UK
ESRC Social Contexts and Responses to Risk Network Conference "Risk & Rationalities"
http://www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/events/rrcontext.htm

13-15 April 2007, Institute of Discourse & Cultural Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
The Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses
http://www.shixu.com/institute-conference/

27 April 2007, School of Social Sciences, City University, London, UK
Postgraduate Conference "Extending The Boundaries: New Research in Sociology"
http://www.city.ac.uk/sociology/mediacomm/Boundaries.html

27-28 April 2007, Birmingham, UK
Symposium "Narrative and Multimodality: Language, Theory, Contexts", Narrative Special Interest Group, Poetics and Linguistics Association
http://www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=narrative-and-multimodality

16-18 May 2007, Michigan State University, USA
Conference on Cultural Rhetorics
http://rhetoric.msu.edu/cultrhet/

18-21 July 2007, Endicott College Campus, Boston, USA
Fifth Biennial Conference, International Society of Critical Health Psychology
http://www.ischp.org/

3-6 September 2007, Glasgow, Scotland
CfP "Using Qualitative Research: The Relevance and Applicability of Micro Methods", ESA RN Qualitative Methods
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/qual.htm

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.

D) LINKS

ESRC QUADS (Qualitative Data Archiving and Data Sharing) Demonstrator Scheme Showcase day, London, September 2006: Presentations and materials online
http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/news/eventdetail.asp?ID=1588

"Internet for Modern Languages", new edition
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/languages

"Internet for Religious Studies", new tutorial
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/religion

ESA Research Network on the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (SoRU) launched
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/risk.htm

E) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

October SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-06.htm

Launch of OpenDOAR Search, a worldwide Directory of Open Access trial search service for researchers
http://www.opendoar.org/search.php

Launch of SHERPA Search, a trial search service for UK repositories
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/news/launchsherpasearch.html

The European Commission's Research Directorate-General commissioned a "Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publication markets in Europe", published in the beginning of 2006 and available at http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf. The summary of the responses and the individual contributions now are available online:

Summary: http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/...
Individual responses: http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3186

New international model agreement for authors "Balancing Rights and Interests in the Digital Age" published
http://www.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/licence/

Conferences

2-3 November, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Workshop on §Electronic Publishing and Open Access: Developing Country
Perspectives"
http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/OAworkshop2006/

23-27 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas USA
2nd International Conference on Open Repositories "Achieving Interoperability in an Open World"
http://www.openrepositories.org/

11-13 July 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
CfP, 1st International Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publishing Conference
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/callforpapers.php

Texts

Sale, Arthur (2006): The Acquisition of Open Access Research Articles. First Monday, 11(10)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/sale/index.html

Sica, Giandomenico (Ed.) (2006) Open Access: Open Problems. Polimetrica Publisher
http://www.polimetrica.com/polimetrica/506/02/Open_Access_Open_Problems_vers._elettr.pdf

Uhlir, Paul F. & Esanu, Julie M. (2006): Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific Data in China: Summary of a Workshop
http://newton.nap.edu/catalog/11710.html

Journals/Newsletters

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/

First Monday, 11(10)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, CfP Special issue "Social Network Sites:
People, Practice, and Culture"
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dmb/jcmc-sns/

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
http://evaluation.wmich.edu/jmde/

Journal of Social Science Education, 1/06
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/index.html

Medical History: A European Journal of the History of Medicine and Health, 50(4)
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?iid=135581

P.O.S.T.M.O.D.E.R.N C.U.L.T.U.R.E, 16(3)
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/

Radical Psychology: A Journal of Psychology, Politics and Radicalism, CfP
http://www.radpsynet.org/journal/index.html

Solidarity, Sustainability, and Religious Violence, 2(10)
http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv02n10.html

Visions of Research in Music Education
http://www.rider.edu/~vrme/

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