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The Johannes van Kessel (jvank) website is an umbrella website, which hosts a number of Chapters, each containing web pages of one or more Initiatives. The most important common characteristics of these Initiatives is that each offers low-cost services and is moderately staffed.

The designs of the Johannes van Kessel group strive for simplicity and (cost) effectiveness. This also applies to the management style of the organization itself.

The following chapters are active:

• Research Methodology (see the Research Methodology section)
• Publishing
• Courses, and
• Advising.

Research Methodology

The Research Methodology chapter holds initiatives in the field of Research Methodology for the social, behavioral and life sciences.

The first initiative of this chapter has been to make accessible the material of several conferences on or related to research methodology:

2000 KNAW Colloquium on research methodology.

This colloquium was held in Amsterdam in 2000 and was funded and hosted by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Proceedings of the RM 2003 symposium.

This symposium was held in Amsterdam in 2003 at Free University. There are still some hard copies and CDs of the RM2003 Proceedings available. Please contact: RM2003@jvank.nl

Retirement symposium.

In 2005, a symposium was held at the occasion of the retirement of Herman Adèr of the VU University medical center. His account of the happening can be found at Adèr’s account of the RM 2005 retirement symposium

2007 KNAW Colloquium ‘Advising on Research Methods.

In 2007, a Colloquium Advising on Research methods was held, funded and hosted (again) by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The Colloquium was preceded by a Masterclass on Advising which was video recorded.

A DVD with the video recordings of the consultations that took place during the masterclass, can be obtained via the website: DVD Masterclass ARM 2007 Colloquium.

Printed proceedings of this colloquium became available november 2008 (for more information, see the Publishing chapter).

Weblog of a Methodologist.

After the above Colloquium, Herman Adèr, one of the organisers of the Colloquium, started the Weblog of a Methodologist, in which typical problems of a methodological nature are posed and discussed. By lack of time, maintenance of the weblog is only done sporadically.

The ARM book.

Early 2008, Herman Adèr, Don Mellenbergh and David Hand published the book Advising on research methods: A consultant′s companion. See the Publishing chapter for more information.

Courses.

Several courses were organized using (drafts of) the above book. For more information on courses, see the Courses chapter.

New initiatives.

Ideas to start an initiative to host a RM journal still exist. We hope to take more action this year. Once started, it will be part of the Publishing chapter.

Publishing

This chapter was started as a publishing house on the occasion of the publication of the ‘ARM’ book in March 2008.

ARM book.

The full title of the ARM book is:

Advising on research methods: A consultant’s companion
by Herman J. Adèr, Gideon J. Mellenbergh (with contributions by David J. Hand)
(sewed hardcover: ISBN 978-90-79418-09-1)

January 2011, the third imprint of the book became available. All other editions are sold out. In the Netherlands and Belgium, the book is available via the regular bookseller. From other countries, it can be ordered via the order form on the book’s website:

www.jvank.nl/ARMHome

Proceedings of the 2007 KNAW Colloquium.

November 2008, the proceedings of the 2007 KNAW colloquium ‘Advising on research methods’ were made available, also by Johannes van Kessel Publishing:

Advising on research methods: Proceedings of the 2007 KNAW Colloquium.
H. J. Adèr & G.J. Mellenbergh (Eds.)
(ISBN 978-90-79418-03-9)

The reader contains a collection of newly written articles based on presentations held at the KNAW 2007 Colloquium Advising on research methods. It contains contributions by Janice Derr, Hilde Tobi, Gerald van Belle, Victor van Daal, Robert Pool, Jules Ellis, Bo Lu, Marijtje van Duijn and Herman Adèr on a variety of topics but all related to statistical/methodological consulting.

The book was distributed freely among participants of the Colloquium and the Masterclass. The proceedings are now also commercially available. For more information, see its webside: Advising on research methods, 2007 KNAW Colloquium proceedings.

Publications in Dutch.

Two collections of short stories by Herman Adèr have been published.

• On August 1, 2009 appeared:
  

  De vader en Michiel en andere oude verhalen (ISBN 978-90-79418-05-3).
  For more information, see the website:
  De vader en Michiel

• On March 15, 2010, a second collection appeared:
  

  Een verschrikkelijke liefde
  (ISBN 978-90-79418-06-0).
  For more information, see:
  Een verschrikkelijke liefde

• A biography of Wil Sandberg, the influential managing director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, zoeken en scheuren — de jonge sandberg by Max Arian (editor of the ‘Groene Amsterdammer’) was published on June 3, 2010. The third imprint appeared January, 2011.
• On February 12^th, 2011, a biography of Georgette Rejewski, the then 101-year old actress and logopedist became available. See:
  Toneel is niet blijvend — gesprekken met Georgette Rejewski by Attila Bellus and Robert Boer.
• On May 13st, 2011, a collection of short stories by Ineke de Jonge (Eigen Terrein) will be presented in the Public Library, Amsterdam.

All requests and questions concerning Johannes van Kessel Publishing should be directed to the following e-mail address:

Courses

Since 2005, courses are given by Don Mellenbergh and Herman Adèr as part of the curriculum of the research masters program of the Department of Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2008, the ARM book is used as study material.

In january 2011, a 4 day course was organised by IOPS (Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics) for PhD students of Dutch Universities. The course will be part of the regular IOPS curriculum, and will be given each year.

We now offer in-house courses on Research Advising. For more information, see:

Advising

Since the start of the Johannes van Kessel Group, the Advising chapter has been very successful. We offer advice and do the data analysis for the following projects, some of which on a regular basis. For the moment, this is mainly the work of Herman Adèr but several students have collaborated: Marianne Hubregtse and Philp Schuette, both students who attended one of the ARM courses.