FQS-Newsletter April 2006

Dear All,

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

Articles, Published in FQS in April 2006
Inside FQS: Call for Book Reviewers
From our Readers
Conferences and Workshops
Links
Open Access News

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN APRIL 2006

Rainer Diaz-Bone (Germany): Practical Elaborations. About the Development of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis in Germany. Juergen Link in Conversation With Rainer Diaz-Bone
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-06/06-3-20-e.htm

Rainer Diaz-Bone (Germany): Critical Discourse Analysis. The Elaboration of a Problem Oriented Discourse Analytic Approach After Foucault. Siegfried Jaeger in Conversation With Rainer Diaz-Bone
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-06/06-3-21-e.htm

Nicola Doering (Germany): Review: Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (2004). Die Moral der Daytime Talkshow. Eine soziologische Analyse eines umstrittenen Fernsehformats [The Morality of the Daytime Talk Show. A Sociological Analysis of a Controversial Television Format]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-06/06-3-11-e.htm

Karen Eppley (USA): Defying Insider-Outsider Categorization: One Researcher's Fluid and Complicated Positioning on the Insider-Outsider Continuum. Review Essay: David Weaver-Zercher (Ed.) (2005). Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-06/06-3-16-e.htm

Michael Goepfert (UK): Review: Heather D'Cruz & Martyn Jones (2004). Social Work Research—Ethical and Political Contexts
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-06/06-3-17-e.htm

Lothar Mikos (Germany): Review: Bettina Fritzsche (2003). Pop-Fans. Studie einer Maedchenkultur [Pop-Fans: Study of a Girl Culture]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-06/06-3-18-e.htm

Laila Niklasson (Sweden): Review: Ming-sum Tsui (2005). Social Work Supervision. Context and Concepts
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-06/06-3-23-e.htm

Achim Seiffarth (Germany): Lacan, via Messenger. Review Essay: Georg Christoph Tholen, Gerhard Schmitz & Manfred Riepe (Eds.) (2001). Uebertragung—Uebersetzung—Ueberlieferung. Episteme und Sprache in der Psychoanalyse Lacans [Transfer—Translation—Tradition. Episteme and Language in Lacan's Psychoanalysis]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-06/06-3-15-e.htm

Vered Tohar, Merav Asaf, Anat Kainan & Rakefet Shachar (Israel): Personal Narratives as a Way to Understand the Worlds of College Lecturers
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-06/06-3-12-e.htm

B) INSIDE FQS: CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS

Please contact Guenter Mey (mey@qualitative-forschung.de) if you are interested to review one of the following books, Sage as one of our cooperating publishing houses has offered for "FQS Reviews". Pls. check the "Information on Reviewing Media Units" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/book-reviews/medieneinheiten-e.htm) first because of the special "FQS Reviews" profile!

Andy Alaszewski (2006). Using Diaries for Social Research (136 pages)
Kathy Charmaz (2006). Constructing Grounded Theory. A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis (208 pages)
Uwe Flick (2006). An Introduction to Qualitative Research (3rd ed.) (442 pages)
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber & Partrica Leavy (2005). The Practice of Qualitative Research (404 pages)
Ranjit Kumar (2005). Research Methodology. A Step-By-Step Guide for Beginners (332 pages)
Peter Reason & Hilary Bradbury (2006). Handbook of Action Research (Concise Paperback Edition) (362 pages)
Roger Sapsford & Victor Jupp (2006). Data Collection and Analysis (2nd ed.) (332 pages)
Jean McNiff & Jack Whitehead (2005). All You Need To Know About Action Research (280 pages)

C) FROM OUR READERS

Summer Schools on Discourse Analysis

Life Story Design

D) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

26-30 June, Telus Centre for Professional Development, University of Alberta, Canada
6th Annual Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Series
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/thinking.cfm

20-22 October, Riga, Latvia
Workshop "Qualitative Psychology in the Changing Academic Context", organized by the Centre for Qualitative Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
http://www.qualitative-psychologie.de/index.php?article_id=20&clang=1

15-17 November, Ghent, Belgium
Joint Conference of the ESA Research Network "Sociology of Culture" and the Cultural Policy Research Centre "Re-Creatief Vlaanderen": "Changing Cultures: European Perspectives"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/ESA_SC_06.pdf (PDF file, 51 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.

E) LINKS

Centre for Qualitative Research at Bournemouth

The Performative Social Science (PerformSocSci) e-mail discussion list: to join, please go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=performsocsci&A=1 and follow the instructions.
Full-time PhD in Performative Social Science: The Centre for Qualitative Research at Bournemouth University is offering a bursary to begin Sept 2006. Info on all Centre for Qualitative Research bursaries: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/thegraduateschool/phd_studentships/pdfs/IHCS%20-%20%20QR%20Final.pdf. The deadline is 31 May for applications!
Special Session: Performance-related Presentations of Qualitative Data, 6th Qualitative Research Conference in Health and Social Care 2006: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/qrc06.html, Bournemouth University 4th-6th September 2006. To submit an abstract, please use the online submission form: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/qrcabsub.html. The deadline for abstracts has been extended to 31 May!

oikos PhD Fellowship Programme: Call for Applications: The oikos foundation for economy and ecology at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, is now inviting applications from qualified candidates for its new PhD Fellowship Programme. oikos PhD Fellows receive a grant for three years to conduct their research at the University of St. Gallen and contribute to concrete oikos projects. Application deadline is March 30, 2006. Please follow the links below for more information on the fellowship programme and the application process.

Call for Applications: http://www.oikos-foundation.unisg.ch/homepage/call_for_applications.pdf
Programme Website: http://www.oikos-foundation.unisg.ch/homepage/Fellowship.htm
Application Form: http://www.oikos-foundation.unisg.ch/homepage/application_fellowship.doc

Action Science Community: Forum for People Interested in Action Science
http://www.communityzero.com/actionscience/

Commissioned Inquiry: Risk to Well-being of Researchers in Qualitative Research, Call for Evidence
http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/qualiti/forums/index.php

MAX Maps: Add-on Module for the QDA Software Package MAXqda2
http://www.maxqda.com/

Update Text Analysis Software Website
http://www.textanalysis.info/

Comparisons of QDA Software
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/research/software/caqdas_comparison.html, http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/ChoosingLewins&SilverV3Nov05.pdf

Rose, R. (2005). Language, Soft Power and Asymmetrical Internet Communication. Research Report No. 7, Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/

Social Watch Report 2005: "Roars and Whispers"
http://reflectioncafe.blogspot.com/2006/04/social-watch-report-2005-roars-and.html

F) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

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

European Commission "Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe"
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf

Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories project (CD-LOR): Report on Learning Communities and Repositories
http://www.ic-learning.dundee.ac.uk/projects/CD-LOR/CDLORdeliverable1_learningcommunitiesreport.doc

The Université du Québec à Montréal first North American University to sign the Berlin Declaration
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_03_26_fosblogarchive.html#114390894155983163, http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/signatories.html

New SPARC Innovator Program Acknowledges Individuals, Institutions, and Groups Whose Actions Change the Status Quo
http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/

Portal for Open-access Journals: Geoscience e-Journals
http://paleopolis.rediris.es/geosciences/

Conferences

5 June, 76 Portland Place, London, UK
One-day Conference: Oxford Journals to present open access results
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/news/oa_workshop.html

29 June, Brisbane, Australia
"The Successful Repository", a forum on issues of repository management, organized by APSR in collaboration with the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation (QULOC) and the RUBRIC Project
http://www.apsr.edu.au/successful/successful.htm

21 September, Alicante, Spain
5th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, Call for Presentations and Participation
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nkos/nkos2006/

5-8 October, Murcia, Spain
IADIS WWW/Internet 2006 conference
http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006/

8-10 November, Sofia, Bulgaria
Conference "Globalization, Digitization, Access, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage"
http://slim.emporia.edu/globenet/Sofia2006/Invitation.htm

4-5 December 2006, New Orleans, USA
Eighth International Conference on Grey Literature "Harnessing the Power of Grey"
http://www.textrelease.com/pages/3/

Conference Reports

Berlin 4 Open Access—From Promise to Practice
http://berlin4.aei.mpg.de/presentations.html

CODATA workshop on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa
http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/html/workshopCodataPublications.html

Texts

Bailey, C.W. Jr. (2006):
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 62 http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm
The Open Access Webliography (with Ho): http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/oaw.htm

Dominy, M., Bradley, J.-C. & Bhatt, J. (2006): Peer Review in the Google Age: Is Technology Changing the Way Science is Done and Evaluated?
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006004/

Morrison, H. (2006): Open Peer Review & Collaboration
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006017/

Okerson, A.S. & O'Donnell, J.J. (1995) (Eds.): Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing. Association of Research Libraries
http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/intro.html

Palm, J. (2006): The Digital Black Hole
http://www.tape-online.net/docs/Palm_Black_Hole.pdf

Pincock, S. (2006): Will EU beat UK in Open Access? The Scientist, April 21, 2006
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23341/

Willinsky, J. (2005) The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/ebook.asp?ttype=2&tid=10611, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/willinsky/TheAccessPrinciple_TheMITPress_0262232421.pdf

Yeomans, J. (2006). CERN's Open Access E-print Coverage in 2006: Three Quarters Full and Counting. HEP Libraries Webzine , 12
http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/12/papers/2/

Journals/Newsletter

Anglogermánica Online
http://www.uv.es/anglogermanica/

D-Lib Magazine, 4
http://www.dlib.org/

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

ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 6(1)
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/index.htm

Eurozine Newsletter
http://www.eurozine.com/newsletter.html

First Monday, 11(4)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_4/

IBScientific magazine
http://www.ibscientific.net/

IBS Journal of Science
http://www.ibscientific.net/journal/index.php/oj/

International Journal of Private Education
http://www.xaiu.com/xaiujournal/

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, CfP
http://www.irrodl.org/

Qualitative Sociology Review, 2(1)
http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/volume3.php