FQS-Newsletter February 2006

Dear All,

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

Articles, Published in FQS in February 2006
From our Readers
Conferences and Workshops
Links
Open Access News

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN FEBRUARY 2006

Dirk Ducar (Germany): Review: Gerrit Herlyn & Thomas Overdick (Eds.) (2003). Kassettengeschichten. Von Menschen und ihren Mixtapes [Cassette Stories. Men and Their Mix Tapes]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-14-e.htm

Daniel Domínguez Figaredo (Spain): Educational Ethnography beyond Scholarly Ethnography. Transferring Meanings to Cyberspace. Review Essay: Honorio M. Velasco Maillo, F. Javier García Castaño & Ángel Díaz de Rada (Eds.) (2003). Lecturas de antropología para educadores. El ámbito de la antropología de la educación y de la etnografía escolar [Readings on Anthropology for Educating. The Field of Educational Anthropology and Scholar Ethnography]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-2-e.htm (English full text)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-2-s.htm (Spanish full text)

Mary Gergen (USA): Review: Lesa Lockford (2004). Performing Femininity: Rewriting Gender Identity
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-13-e.htm

Stefanie Grosse (Germany): Review: Bruno Hildenbrand (2005). Fallrekonstruktive Familienforschung. Anleitungen fuer die Praxis [Case Reconstruction in Family Research. Guidance for Practice]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-9-e.htm

Christine Holmberg (USA): Review: Judith Green & Nicki Thorogood (2004). Qualitative Methods for Health Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-7-e.htm

Amrei C. Joerchel (Austria): A Qualitative Study of Multicultural Identities: Three Cases of London's Inner-City Children
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-18-e.htm

Anne Klein (Germany): Review: Walburga Freitag (2005). Contergan. Eine genealogische Studie des Zusammenhangs wissenschaftlicher Diskurse und biographischer Erfahrungen [Contergan. A Genealogical Study on Scientific Discourse and Biography]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-15-e.htm

Iain Lang (UK): Review: Melissa Hardy & Alan Bryman (Eds.) (2004). Handbook of Data Analysis
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-20-e.htm

Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): Review: Irit Kupferberg & David Green (2005). Troubled Talk. Metaphorical Negotiation in Problem Discourse
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-5-e.htm

Andrea Stoeckl (UK): Ethnography, Travel Writing and the Self: Reflections on Socially Robust Knowledge and the Authorial Ego. Review Essay: Laurel Richardson & Ernest Lockridge (2004). Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-11-e.htm

Hella von Unger (Germany): Working With and Against the Concepts of "Race" and "Ethnicity": Research Dilemmas and Tools. Review Essay: Yasmin Gunaratnam (2003). Researching "Race" and Ethnicity: Methods, Knowledge and Power
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-21-e.htm

B) FROM OUR READERS

Use of focus group data

Use of secondary data

The cultural factor in qualitative research

Conceptual change in science education

C) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

24-25 April, Bournemouth University, UK
Masterclass "Reflexivity in Qualitative Research"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/CQR_UK_Masterclass_0604.pdf (PDF file, 30 KB)

5-10 June, Bhubaneswar, India
Doctoral Summer School (DSS 2006) Case-Study Research
http://www1.ximb.ac.in/users/web/fpm.nsf/pages/DSS2006

6-9 June, New York City and Washington, D.C., USA
Training Seminar for Policy Research "Public Health, Social Welfare Systems, and HIV/AIDS in Eurasia", Social Science Research Council Eurasia Program
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/SSRC_Eurasia_Public Health.pdf (PDF file, 222 KB)

9-10 June, Cedarville, OH, USA
18th Annual Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education (EQRE)
http://www.cedarville.edu/eqre/

21-24 August, Groningen, The Netherlands
ALARPM 7th and PAR 11th WORLD CONGRESS "Participatory Research, Standards and Ethics"
http://www.wcar2006.nl/

4-6 September, Bournemouth University, UK
6th Qualitative Research Conference in Health and Social Care 2006
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/qrc06.html

4-6 October, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, UK
UK Evaluation Society/European Evaluation Society: Joint International Conference Evaluation in Society: Critical Connections
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/eval_soc_2006.pdf (PDF file, 35 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

Social Science Research Council: Predissertation Fellowship for International Collaboration Awards of up to $7,000 for International Research and/or Training
Deadline: March 31, 2006
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/links/PFIC_Flyer.pdf (PDF file, 124 KB)

The Department of Media and Communication Studies in the School of the Humanities at the University of Mannheim invites applications for a tenured position at Full Professor level (W3 Professor).
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/links/Uni-Mannheim_W3_2006.pdf (PDF file, 15 KB)

Ethnographic Thesaurus
http://www.etproject.org/

Wikipedia articles on evaluation topics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation

Weft QDA version 1.0, free, open-source tool for analysis of textual qualitative data analysis for Windows and GNU/Linux
http://www.pressure.to/qda/

TAMS Analyzer, qualitative analysis software for OS X
http://tamsys.sf.net/osxtams/download.html

From Memory Guide to Oral History, website
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/from-memory

Doctoral Education, new discussion list
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/doctoral_education/

DISABLED-FACULTY, new discussion list
http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=disabled-faculty

D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

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

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

Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
http://www.opendoar.org/

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
http://archives.eprints.org/

Swiss scientific organizations have agreed to allow open access
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=511&sid=6445776&cKey=1139306438000

Repository Deposit Scenarios
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/All_the_Scenarios_and_Use_Cases_Submitted

Petition for Public Access to Geographic Data in Europe
http://petition.publicgeodata.org/

Research project "User Needs and Potential Users of Public Repositories: An Integrated Analysis", funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) invites participants as questionnaire respondents
http://www.my3q.com/go.php?url=repository/86417

Position as Scholarly Communications and Publishing Manager, Lund University Libraries
http://www3.lu.se/info/lediga/admin/document/x426.pdf

Conferences

20-21 March, Binghamton University Libraries, USA
Symposium "Funding Our Digital Future: Budgeting for Libraries & Scholarly Communication"
http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/librarynews/archives/2006/01/funding_our_dig.html

29-31 March, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik, Golm, Germany
Berlin 4 "Open Access: From Promise to Practice"
http://berlin4.aei.mpg.de/

4-5 April, Berlin, Germany
Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2006) "The Role of Information in Science and Society"
http://www.ape2006.de/

21-23 April, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA
The Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K)
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2kspeakers.html

24-25 April, Lund, Sweden
3rd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication
http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2006/

11-13 May, Bergen, Norway
Open Access Institutional Repositories, Current Research Information Systems (CRIS2006)
http://ct.eurocris.org/CRIS2006/

15 May, McGill, Montréal, Canada
Congrès de l'ACFAS 2006: L'information scientifique: les impacts du libre accès
http://www.acfas.ca/congres/

Texts

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.: Version 61, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

John Lorinc: The Bottom Line on Open Access
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/issues/2006/march/open_access_01.html

Alireza Noruzi: The Web Impact Factor: A Critical Review. The Electronic Library 24 (2006).
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005543/

Michel Prévot: La publication scientifique à accès libre: de l'idéal aux modalités concrètes. Application aux sciences de la terre
http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/archives0/00/00/16/71/index_fr.html

Gerard van Westrienen & Clifford A. Lynch: Academic Institutional Repositories: Deployment Status in 13 Nations as of Mid 2005"
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/westrienen/09westrienen.html

Journals/Newsletter

Demographic Research, 1249
http://www.demographic-research.org/

First Monday, 11(2)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_2/

Implementation Science
http://www.implementationscience.com/

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

Papers on Social Representations
http://www.psr.jku.at/psrindex.htm

Polizei-Newsletter / Police Newsletter / BoletínPolicial, 83
http://www.polizei-newsletter.de/aktueller_newsletter.htm
http://www.polizei-newsletter.de/English/aktuell-eng.htm
http://www.polizei-newsletter.de/Espanol/aktuell-sp.htm

Qualitative Sociology Review News, 2nd issue
http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/volume2.php

ScieCom info
http://www.sciecom.org/

Surveillance & Society 3(2/3) on "Doing Surveillance Studies: Methodology Issue"
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/doing.htm

Survey Research Methods, new
http://esra.sqp.nl/esra/journal/

Last update: 30.07.2007