FQS-Newsletter August 2006

Dear All,

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

Articles, Published in FQS in August 2006
Conferences and Workshops
Links
Open Access News

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck

A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN AUGUST 2006

Michael Agar (USA): An Ethnography By Any Other Name …
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-36-e.htm

Christopher Emdin (USA): Beyond Coteaching: Power Dynamics, Cosmopolitanism and the Psychoanalytic Dimension
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-27-e.htm

Birgit Griese (Germany): Werner Fuchs-Heinritz (2005). Biographische Forschung. Eine Einfuehrung in Praxis und Methoden [Biographical Research: An Introduction to Practical and Methodical Basics]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-26-e.htm

Norbert Groeben (Germany): Are There Ways out of the Self-inflicted Irrelevance of the Qualitative Off-stream?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-34-e.htm

Lena Heine (Germany): Strategy Use and Think-aloud Protocols: How L2-Learners Process Text Comprehension Tasks in a Foreign Language. Review Essay: Nicola Wuerffel (2006). Strategiengebrauch bei Aufgabenbearbeitungen in internetgestuetztem Selbstlernmaterial [The Application of Strategies in the Processing of Internet-based Self-study Tasks]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-30-e.htm

Raymond Opdenakker (The Netherlands): Advantages and Disadvantages of Four Interview Techniques in Qualitative Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-11-e.htm

Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): But Does "Ethnography By Any Other Name" Really Promote Real Ethnography?
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-37-e.htm

Dirk vom Lehn (UK): Joerg Struebing (2005). Pragmatistische Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. Theorie und Methode [Pragmatist Science and Technology Research: Theory and Method]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/4-06/06-4-24-e.htm

B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

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 September, Cardiff University, UK
ESA Qualitative Methods Research Network: third mid-term conference "Advances in Qualitative Research Practice"
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/qualiti/ESA/index.html

7-8 September, Bournemouth University, UK
Two-Day Masterclass "The Dialogal Research Approach: The Power of Collaboration and Conversation" by Professor Steen Halling
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/qrchalling.html

28 September, Museum of London, UK
One-day conference "Qualitative Archiving and Data Sharing Scheme (QUADS) Showcase Day"
http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/news/eventdetail.asp?ID=1588

23-24 February 2007, Center for Urban Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania, USA
28th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum "Ethnography and Education in Trying Times"
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

17-19 May 2007, University of St. Thomas, New Brunswick, Canada
The 24th Canadian INTERNATIONAL Qualitative & Ethnographic Research Conference "Towards New Heights"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/IQER.pdf (PDF file, 113 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

Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies: Request for Research Proposals
The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to one-year of research support at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century.
The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students who have achieved ABD status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian Ph.D.s who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years.
The Berlin Program is based at, funded and administered by the Freie Universitaet Berlin. The program's publicity and selection process is organized in cooperation with the German Studies Association (GSA).
Deadline: December 1, 2006, For more complete information and an application form, visit http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/.

Ann Lewins and Christina Silver: CAQDAS Comparison, Version 5
http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk

New web site of the European Sociology Students' Association
http://www.essa-sociology.org/

Alfred Schutz Archive
http://www.waseda.jp/Schutz/AlfredEng.htm

D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS

August SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-02-06.htm

The UK funding body the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has

released its policy on open access archiving
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/aboutus/access/ (see also the RCUK position on issue of improved access to research outputs at http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/)

Conferences

14-16 September, Columbia Hall, Berlin, Germany
International Conference "Wizards of OS 4: Information Freedom Rules"
http://wizards-of-os.org/

18-20 October, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/

21-22 November, Hilton Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
2nd International Digital Curation Conference
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2006/

22-24 January 2007, Heidelberg, Germany
APE 2007: Innovation & Publishing
http://www.ape2007.eu/ (see http://www-live.digilibri.com/catalog/detail/5/814_a_de.html for a short report on APE 2006)

Texts

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.: Version 63: 8/1/2006 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

John Houghton & Peter Sheehan: The Economic Impact of Enhanced Access to Research Findings. Centre for Strategic Economic Studies. Victoria University. July 2006
http://www.cfses.com/documents/wp23.pdf

George Porter: Let's Get it Started! Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 47, 2006
http://www.istl.org/06-summer/viewpoints.html

Arthur Sale: The Acquisition of Open Access Research Articles
http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000375/

Journals/Newsletter

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

First Monday, 11(8)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_8/

Ubiquity 7.31
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/issues7.html

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