Quotidian is a new online academic journal published by Amsterdam University Press. Quotidian is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, focused on the study of everyday life. It promotes the study of culture as a lived experience. The journal features theoretical, empirical and historical research on a broad range of cultural practices, such as: rituals, festivities, group cultures, popular culture, events, material culture and folklore. Although the journal is rooted in the Dutch academy, Quotidian welcomes submissions from all over Europe. The articles are either in Dutch of English.

Prof.dr. C.A. Mandemakers, initiator en projectleider van de Historische Steekproef Nederland bij het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, heeft de DANS Dataprijs 2010 gewonnen. Hij kreeg hem vrijdag 18 juni in Amsterdam uitgereikt door president Robbert Dijkgraaf van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.

At the start of 2010 NWO set up and Open Access incentive fund in which 2,5 million euro has been committed in 2010 to cover author fees for the publication of articles. Supplementary to the Open Access incentive fund, NWO has announced plans to support new Open Access  journals in the humanities. A Call for Proposals (new OA journals or existing journals moving from a subscription-based model to OA) will be announced by NWO over the summer. More details will be available at that time.

Igitur, the Publishing & Archiving Services of the Utrecht University Library, has launched a new electronic Open Access journal in cooperation with the Faculty of Science, Department of Information and Computing Services of Utrecht University: Journal of Chain-computerisation - Information exchange for chain co-operation (JCC).

Professor Jan Grijpink from the Institute of Information and Computer Sciences is the journal’s creator and editor-in-chief.

Conversations with seven Science 2.0 pioneers.

Surely you’ve noticed: The scientific community is undergoing a research-and-data-sharing sea change. Perhaps slower to take to Web-based dissemination than some professions, science—the endeavor for which the World Wide Web was developed—has gradually been adopting new online methods for distributing knowledge. Some say the changes could accelerate scientific progress.

From open-access journals to research-review blogs, from collaboration by wiki to epidemiology by Blackberry, networked knowledge has made more science more accessible more quickly and to more people around the globe than could have been imagined 20 years ago.