FQS-Newsletter December 2006

Dear All,

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

Articles, Published in FQS in December 2007
Conferences and Workshops
Links
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, the Editors of FQS 6(1) – 6(4) and the following external reviewers: Tony Adams, Ariane Antal, Robert Antony, Roberta Bampton, Maren Borkert, Robin Boylorn, Rainer Diaz-Bone, Michael Dick, Mary Dixion Woods, Juergen Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Irena Medjedovic, Alexander Roehler, Carla De Tona, and Holger von der Lippe.

A season of health, peace, and prosperity for all of you!

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN DECEMBER 2007

Mircea Agabrian (Romania): Relationships between School and Family: The Adolescents' Perspective
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-20-e.htm

Disa Bergnéhr (Sweden): Love and Family: Discussions Between Swedish Men and Women Concerning the Transition to Parenthood
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-23-e.htm

Esin Bozkurt (Germany): Review: Dietmar Loch (2005). Jugendliche magrebinischer Herkunft zwischen Stadtpolitik und Lebenswelt [Youth of Maghrebian Origin Between Municipal Politics and the Life-World]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-26-e.htm

Rainer Diaz-Bone (Germany): Does Qualitative Network Analysis Exist? Review Essay: Betina Hollstein & Florian Straus (Eds.) (2006). Qualitative Netzwerkanalyse. Konzepte, Methoden, Anwendungen [Qualitative Network Analysis: Concepts, Methods, Applications]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-28-e.htm

Thomas Link (Austria): Review: Michael Jaeckel & Manfred Mai (Eds.) (2005). Online-Vergesellschaftung? Mediensoziologische Perspektiven auf neue Kommunikationstechnologien [Internet-mediated Societalization? Media Sociology's Perspectives on New Communication Technologies]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-24-e.htm

Bakhtiar Shabani Varaki (Iran): Narrative Inquiry in Educational Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-4-e.htm

B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

5-7 January, University of Georgia, USA
20th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies "Celebrating Quality in Qualitative Research"
http://www.coe.uga.edu/quig/

18-19 January, Bournemouth University, UK
Masterclass "The Ambit of Biographical Research", presented by Prof Robert Miller
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Bournemouth-07.pdf (PDF, 96 KB)

18-20 April, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
CAQDAS 07 Conference: Advances in Qualitative Computing
http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference/conference07.htm

30 May-1 June, Guanajuato, Mexico
Second International Qualitative Research Conference "Cultural Complexities of Qualitative Research"
http://www.qualitativegto.org/

7-9 December, Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany
CfP International Conference "Ethnicity, Belonging, Biography and Ethnography", co-organized with the TransCoop project "Biography and Ethnicity" and the Research Committee 38 "Biography and Society" of the International Sociological Association
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/Biography_07.pdf (PDF, 17 KB)

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

Oral history studies, new thematic guide on
http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/news/newsdetail.asp?id=1661

ERPA—European Research Papers Archive
http://eiop.or.at/erpa/

Noesis: Philosophical Research On-line
http://noesis.evansville.edu/

D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

December SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-06.htm

Australian Research Council (ARC) expects Open Access for ARC-funded projects
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_12_03_fosblogarchive.html#116526965445838544

Forthcoming OA Developments in France
http://threader.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lists/boaiforum/945.html

"Open access: an alternative of access to scientific information", Declaration of Mexico
https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/3495.html

Statement "Open access to scientific publications", Council of the Rectors of Portuguese Universities
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5881.html

IFLA/Unesco Internet Manifesto Guidelines
http://www.ifla.org/faife/policy/iflastat/Internet-ManifestoGuidelines.pdf

Conferences

22-24 January, Berlin, Germany
APE 2007 Academic Publishing in Europe "Innovation & Publishing"
http://www.ape2007.eu/index.html

23-26 January, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Open Repositories Conference 2007
http://openrepositories.org/

15-16 February, Brussels, Belgium
European Commission Conference "Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area—Access, Dissemination, and Preservation in the Digital Age"
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3459

18-20 April, Geneva, Switzerland
5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
http://cern.ch/oai5

27-29 April, New Haven, USA
Yale ISP Second Conference on Access to Knowledge
http://research.yale.edu/isp/

13-15 June, Vienna, Austria
11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing ELPUB 2007 "Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access"
http://www.elpub.net/

11-13 July, Vancouver, Canada
First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/493

19-21 September, Padova, Italy
Berlin 5 Open Access: "From Practice to Impact: Consequences on Knowledge Dissemination"
http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-padua/index.html

Texts

Bailey, Charles W. Jr.: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 66
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/

Parker, Carole A.: Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal Scholarship. New Mexico Law Review
http://ssrn.com/abstract=928489

Journals/newsletter

THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS REACHES AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE – MORE THAN 2500 JOURNALS IN THE DOAJ
http://www.doaj.org/

Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 5
http://www.discourseunit.com/arcp/5.htm

Electronic Journal of Business, Ethics and Organization Studies, 11(2)
http://ejbo.jyu.fi/

First Monday, 11(12)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/

International Journal of Zizek Studies, new
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/zizek/home.cfm

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
http://evaluation.wmich.edu/jmde/JMDE_Num006.html

Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 4/5
http://www.pipss.org/

Journal of Research Practice
http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/

Journal of Whole Schooling, 3(1)
http://www.wholeschooling.net/Journal_of_Whole_Schooling/IJWSIndex.html

organdi, launch of new site and new issue
http://www.organdi.net/?lang=en

Solidarity, Sustainability, and Religious Violence, 2(12)
http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv02n12.html

Last update: 30.07.2007

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