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http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm
This website is unique in providing a multi-lingual online journal, discussion forum and news roundup all in one. It is edited by Katja Mruck, and contains articles on various aspects of qualitative research that can be read in English, German and Spanish. The site also has plenty of information about international conferences, interviews and current debates within the field.

http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/qualres.html
This site is maintained by Ronald J. Chenail at Nova Southeastern University, Florida.  It houses not only its own online journal, “The Qualitative Report”, but also an extremely useful set of links to other websites about qualitative research. You can therefore browse current or previous issues of the journal, find out about other articles in relevant journals, and use the A-Z menu to find web sites about more specific aspects of qualitative research.

http://www.qualitativeresearch.uga.edu/QualPage/
Here is an extremely useful collection of information and resources, provided by the Qualitative Interest Group (QUIG) at the University of Georgia. It contains details of their annual conference on interdisciplinary qualitative studies, hyperlinks to other qualitative research web sites, a list of journals and discussion forums. Well worth a read!

http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/qualval.php
This page presents a short discussion about the issues involved in assessing the validity of qualitative research. It is part of the wider 'knowledge base' that William Trochim at Cornell University has created, and is linked to his various other pages about qualitative research. In this page, the author talks about Guba and Lincoln's (1994) alternative criteria for evaluating qualitative research, as outlined in the textbook.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/qual-research.html
This web site allows you to browse an archive of messages from Qual-Research, an email distribution list to which many qualitative researchers subscribe. If you have a particular query, you can search the archives by keyword, but you can also look through the messages to gain an overall sense of what qualitative research is and how current debates within the discipline are developing.