1.  FQS           http://qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm

FQS  is a peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative research. Established in 1999, we are re-organizing FQS by setting up broader information and communication resources for qualitative researchers, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

FQS Issues are published tri-annually. Additionally, selected single contributions and contributions belonging to the rubrics FQS Reviews, FQS Debates and FQS Conferences are published immediately after they go through the peer review process. All full texts are available for free. Our Newsletter informs you of new publications as soon as they are posted online.

The main aim of FQS is to promote discussion and cooperation among qualitative researchers from different countries and social science disciplines. The unique attributes of the Internet¡Xspeed, flexibility, interactivity¡Xare employed to develop, in comparison to traditional print media, new discourse forms and standards for quality. It is an explorative project which means having an open forum where the content and the formal design of FQS are developed in cooperation with all of its participants¡Xreaders, authors, editorial board members and editors alike. Questions, suggestions, and all possible types of support are welcomed and appreciated!

2.  The Qualitative Report   http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/web.html

In 1990, we launched The Qualitative Report as a paper journal in order to give writers and researchers an outlet for expressing themselves in and about qualitative research. The world back then was not so qualitative research-friendly as it is today. It was difficult to find journals totally dedicated to qualitative approaches or ones open to publishing research utilizing such methods. We envisioned the journal as a safe haven for authors and readers to explore these new and strange approaches to discovery and exploration.

A couple of years later, we took The Qualitative Report online and reached out to a worldwide audience. We have seen our readership and paper submissions increase dramatically. We have seen a decided improvement in the state of qualitative research as an accepted family of approaches to research and reflection. We have also been witness to the wonderful growth of quality in the field. We have found the emergence of all of these events to be quite fulfilling and rewarding.

Over these years, as we have worked with our authors, we have begun to approach them and their papers in a way that we think is different from what may be the standard procedure at other journals. We became more and more curious about our own process. We reviewed our reviews and we spoke with our authors and editorial board members. In this reflection, we began to see a pattern. The reviewers and editors enjoyed the emerging style and felt the authors appreciated what we were trying to do. The authors agreed the reviews they were receiving were different too. They thought The Qualitative Report reviews were richly developed, extremely helpful, and respectful of their ideas and of them.

Based upon these reflections, we introduced a new editorial process at The Qualitative Report in 2002. Our goal for this process continues to be focused on helping all authors to prepare their papers for eventual publication in the journal. In this system, all authors who submit papers are accepted as members of The Qualitative Report's community.

The hallmark of The Qualitative Report will not be built upon rejection rates; rather, we want to distinguish ourselves by assisting authors to improve themselves and their texts. We strongly believe all authors and their research have merit. Sometimes, that quality is not readily apparent in the text. The goal of this approach is to help authors to develop their ideas and to work collaboratively with their mentoring reviewers to help them to bring out the best in their work. The tenor of this editorial relationship will be one of respect and collaboration.

Our mission is to nurture and mentor authors who submit their papers to The Qualitative Report and to support them throughout the paper development process. In doing so, we have envisioned The Qualitative Report as a learning environment, one through which we will commit our collective human and informational resources to help each and every author produce papers of excellence and distinction.

Submissions to The Qualitative Report are peer reviewed. Each authors will be assigned to an editorial development team headed by one of the journal's editors, who along with the reviewers, will work closely with the author as manuscript consultants in pursuit of developing the paper for publication in The Qualitative Report. The manuscript development group will also focus on helping the author develop as a writer and researcher. By making this acceptance, we dedicate ourselves to creating a context in which all participants in the editorial development process can grow as authors and mentors. As a team, they can successfully work together to improve the manuscripts until the submissions become published papers in this journal.

3. Qualitative Research              http://WWW.SAGEPUB.CO.UK/journalManuscript.aspx?pid=105752&sc=1

The journal encourages submission of papers from all and any of the relevant social and cultural discipline. All papers should however, have a methodological focus, with reference to empirical research.