Slow week

It’s been a slow week.  The Book Festival is long gone.  The other Edinburgh festivals are finished.  The cricket season ended last week, and the series against Bangladesh doesn’t start until next month.  We don’t go away anywhere until towards the end of October.  The weather is changing, making it sometimes more difficult to get out for bike rides and runs.  In any case, I can’t persuade Fat Mac to get on his bike, the Tall Thin One is in Shetland, JD is in France, Lindsey is at work, it’s not long since I saw the TAK, I don’t see Donald until next week, I’m more or less up-to-date with adding journals to JournalTOCs, and it’s a slow, slow week.

The most exciting thing that has happened this week is that I bought and fixed a new toilet seat.

They don’t make toilet seats the way they used to.  Somehow, the last toilet seat only lasted two years, which means that I am now spending about £1 a month on toilet seats.  The last one got stained.  The one before, which lasted three years, became lumpy as moisture got into the MDF.  The one before lasted four years until it became wobbly.  At this rate, replacing toilet seats will eventually become a major financial outlay.  I can’t remember my parents ever having to replace a single toilet seat.  Aye, they made them to last, in those days.  Even Fat Mac has replaced his toilet seat recently (along with the rest of his bathroom).  If I could persuade him to get on his bike, no doubt he would tell me about how toilet seats in the sivinties were far superior.

But in terms of functionality, my new seat is a major improvement.  Both the lid and the seat can remain in the vertical position, if you want it to.  All previous seats came crashing down when you lifted them, due to the fact that the tank was too far from the wall and there wasn’t quite enough space for the lid and seat.  I even got a plumber, who was called for another purpose, to look at the last-but-one seat, and he couldn’t get it to remain in the up position.  But the new one has a different design, and stays in the vertical position, if you want it to.

The new toilet seat was made in China, of course, and is formed from thermoset plastic, so shouldn’t go lumpy, and has rust resistant stainless steel hinges, fixable from the top, so shouldn’t go wobbly.  It is ‘soft close’ which means that it doesn’t come crashing down, but as I said, this is less of a problem because it stays up, if you want it to.

I also cleaned the front stoep and stairs.  Having a clean stoep is a very African thing, and my stoep and stairs had become encrusted in grime, making it sometimes a bit slippy when wet.

In fact, due to it raining every time I step outside, I’ve only cleaned the stoep and the top one-and-a-half stairs so far.

Already, the ‘patio-cleaning-brush’ which I bought from B&Q for a fiver the other day has half fallen apart with some bristles coming off.  Once I’ve finished, I’ll take it back to the shop as unfit for purpose.  I’m not having stoep cleaning implements becoming as big a financial outlay as new toilet seats.

A new toilet seat and a cleaned stoep.  If it would stop raining, I could play golf.  It’s been a slow week.

242 More Open Access and subscription Journals added to JournalTOCs

I’ve added the following titles to JournalTOCs, the free current awareness and alerting service for researchers, students and lecturers.  JournalTOCs now contains details of the latest Tables of Contents of over 28,500 scholarly journals, including more than 11,000 Open Access journals, and is the largest freely available collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents.

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Muzealnictwo – (Open Access)
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Antropomotoryka. Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences – (Open Access)
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Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica – (Open Access)
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Fizjoterapia Polska – (Open Access)
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Volumina Jurassica – (Open Access)
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Protetyka Stomatologiczna – (Open Access)
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Kultura Popularna – (Open Access)
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Security and Defence – (Open Access)
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Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia interdyscyplinarne – (Open Access)
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Securitologia – (Open Access)
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Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Humanitas Zarządzanie – (Open Access)
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Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem. – (Open Access)
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Journal of Pre-Clinical and Clinical Research – (Open Access)
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Forum Ortodontyczne – (Open Access)
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Zeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości – (Open Access)
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Internal Security –
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Medycyna Ogólna i Nauki o Zdrowiu – (Open Access)
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Journal of Stomatology (Czasopismo Stomatologiczne) – (Open Access)
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Studies in Global Ethics and Global Education – (Open Access)
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OnCOReview – (Open Access)
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Problemy Mechatroniki. Uzbrojenie, lotnictwo, inżynieria bezpieczeństwa / Problems of Mechatronics. Armament, Aviation, Safety Engineering – (Open Access)
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Zagadnienia Ekonomiki Rolnej – (Open Access)
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Biuletyn Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej – (Open Access)
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Psychologia Wychowawcza – (Open Access)
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Nowa Stomatologia – (Open Access)
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Polish Journal of Microbiology – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Contemporary Management – (Open Access)
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Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego – (Open Access)
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Postępy Higieny i Medycyny Doświadczalnej – (Open Access)
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Revista Petra – (Open Access)
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World Journal of Environmental Research – (Open Access)
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World Journal on Educational Technology – (Open Access)
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Global Journal of Information Technology – (Open Access)
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OTORITAS : Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan – (Open Access)
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American Journal of Biomedicine –
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World Journal of Educational Research – (Open Access)
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Sustainability in Environment – (Open Access)
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Journal of Economics and Public Finance – (Open Access)
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Majalah Kedokteran Andalas – (Open Access)
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Studies in Arts and Humanities – (Open Access)
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Economics and Finance in Indonesia – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Innovative Research in Education – (Open Access)
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Direito e Liberdade – (Open Access)
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Journal of Curriculum and Teaching – (Open Access)
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Raigal – (Open Access)
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Bioactive Materials – (Open Access)
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Geodesy and Geodynamics – (Open Access)
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Green Energy & Environment – (Open Access)
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Infectious Disease Modelling – (Open Access)
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Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience – (Open Access)
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Non-coding RNA Research – (Open Access)
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Petroleum – (Open Access)
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Plant Diversity – (Open Access)
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Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology – (Open Access)
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Journal of Finance and Data Science – (Open Access)
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World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery – (Open Access)
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Journal of Nanostructures – (Open Access)
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Turkish Journal of Agricultural and Natural Science – (Open Access)
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Biomedical Photonics – (Open Access)
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Journal of Immunotherapy Applications – (Open Access)
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Journal of Rheumatology and Orthopedics – (Open Access)
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Revista de Administração Geral – (Open Access)
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Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul – (Open Access)
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Bulletin of the Dnipropetrovsk University. Series : Management of Innovations – (Open Access)
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Journal of Toxicology and Health – (Open Access)
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Hormonal Studies – (Open Access)
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Research Journal of Women’s Health – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Operations Research – (Open Access)
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Serie Científica de la Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas – (Open Access)
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Critical Values –
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Synthetic Biology –
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Current Zoology –
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Atenas : Revista Científico Pedagógica – (Open Access)
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Current Gynecologic Oncology – (Open Access)
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Journal of Ultrasonography – (Open Access)
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Sample of Science – (Open Access)
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Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics – (Open Access)
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Journal of Numerical Cognition – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Recent Contributions from Engineering, Science & IT – (Open Access)
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ARO. The Scientific Journal of Koya University – (Open Access)
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Ciencia e Investigación Medico Estudiantil Latinoamericana – (Open Access)
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Journal of Medical and Surgical Research – (Open Access)
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Revue Marocaine de l’Entrepreneuriat, de l’Innovation et du Management – (Open Access)
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Journal of Water Science & Environment Technologies – (Open Access)
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Espace Géographique et Société Marocaine – (Open Access)
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Revue d’Etudes en Management et Finance d’Organisation – (Open Access)
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Revue des Etudes Multidisciplinaires en Sciences Economiques et Sociales – (Open Access)
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Revue Marocaine de Gestion et d’Economie – (Open Access)
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Finance & Finance Internationale – (Open Access)
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Mediterranean Journal of Biosciences – (Open Access)
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Le Pédagogue – (Open Access)
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Journal of Natural Remedies – (Open Access)
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Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Health Care – (Open Access)
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MVP Journal of Medical Sciences – (Open Access)
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Journal of Environment and Sociobiology –
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Journal of Academy of Dental Education –
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Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics –
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Journal of Biological Control –
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Journal of Ecophysiology and Occupational Health –
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Global Journal of Enterprise Information System – (Open Access)
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SRELS Journal of Information Management – (Open Access)
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Journal of Endocrinology and Reproduction –
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Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society –
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Apuntes Electorales – (Open Access)
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Telaah Bisnis – (Open Access)
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Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society – (Open Access)
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Jewish Historical Studies – (Open Access)
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Hemisphere : Visual Cultures of the Americas – (Open Access)
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Journal of Dynamic Decision Making – (Open Access)
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Heidelberger Jahrbücher Online – (Open Access)
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Ruperto Carola – (Open Access)
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Transcultural Studies – (Open Access)
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Archive of Numerical Software – (Open Access)
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Forum Marsilius-Kolleg – (Open Access)
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Heidelberg Ethnology – (Open Access)
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Heidelberger Brief – Mitteilungen zur Iranistik – (Open Access)
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HeLix – Dossiers zur romanischen Literaturwissenschaft – (Open Access)
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Vorträge und Forschungen – (Open Access)
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Bangladesh Heart Journal – (Open Access)
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Ausgrabungen und Funde in Westfalen-Lippe – (Open Access)
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Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology – (Open Access)
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Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies – (Open Access)
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Chinese Journal of Global Governance – (Open Access)
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Les Carnets de l’ACoSt – (Open Access)
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Œconomia – (Open Access)
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Metallurgical and Materials Engineering – (Open Access)
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Journal of Urban Ecology – (Open Access)
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Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (SEFAD) / Selçuk University Journal of Faculty of Letters – (Open Access)
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Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports – (Open Access)
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Revista de Ciências Agroambientais – (Open Access)
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Revista E3 – (Open Access)
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Avances del Cesor – (Open Access)
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Revista Paginas – (Open Access)
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Olho d’água – (Open Access)
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Polyolefins Journal – (Open Access)
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Safety and Reliability –
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TESOL Journal –
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Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics – (Open Access)
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Suomen Antropologi : Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society – (Open Access)
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TRACE ∴ Finnish Journal for Human-Animal Studies – (Open Access)
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Lähikuva – audiovisuaalisen kulttuurin tieteellinen julkaisu – (Open Access)
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Puhe ja kieli – (Open Access)
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Syria – (Open Access)
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Science & Technology Studies –
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Signum – (Open Access)
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SQS – Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran lehti – (Open Access)
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Suomen Sukututkimusseuran Vuosikirja – (Open Access)
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Virittäjä –
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Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding – (Open Access)
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Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo – (Open Access)
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Educación y Humanismo – (Open Access)
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World Journal of Social Science – (Open Access)
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International Journal of English Language Teaching – (Open Access)
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World Journal of English Language – (Open Access)
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Revista Brasileira de Direito – (Open Access)
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Revista Cerrados – (Open Access)
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Alteridade – (Open Access)
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Revista do Curso de Direito – (Open Access)
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Revista Desenvolvimento Social – (Open Access)
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Renome – (Open Access)
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Unimontes Científica – (Open Access)
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Cendekia : Jurnal Kependidikan dan Kemasyarakatan – (Open Access)
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Kesmas : Public Health Journal – (Open Access)
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Alchemy : Jurnal Penelitian Kimia – (Open Access)
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Masyarakat : Jurnal Sosiologi – (Open Access)
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Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship – (Open Access)
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Journal of Amateur Sport – (Open Access)
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Journal of Melittology – (Open Access)
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Journal of Montessori Research – (Open Access)
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Novitates Paleoentomologicae – (Open Access)
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Cahiers Agricultures – (Open Access)
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Infectious Diseases and Translational Medicine – (Open Access)
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Advances in Technology Innovation – (Open Access)
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Proceedings of Engineering and Technology Innovation – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Nuclear Security – (Open Access)
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Pulmonary Therapy – (Open Access)
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Computational Visual Media – (Open Access)
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia – (Open Access)
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Annales Missiologici Posnanienses – (Open Access)
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Balcanica Posnaniensia Acta et studia – (Open Access)
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Filozofia Chrześcijańska – (Open Access)
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Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia – (Open Access)
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Historia@Teoria – (Open Access)
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Basal Ganglia –
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International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication – (Open Access)
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Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej – (Open Access)
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Investigationes Linguisticae – (Open Access)
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Karaite Archives – (Open Access)
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Kultura-Społeczeństwo-Edukacja – (Open Access)
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Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe – (Open Access)
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Poznańskie Spotkania Językoznawcze – (Open Access)
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Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza – (Open Access)
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Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka – (Open Access)
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Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne – (Open Access)
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Poznańskie Studia Teologiczne – (Open Access)
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Praktyka Teoretyczna – (Open Access)
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Przegląd Politologiczny – (Open Access)
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Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review – (Open Access)
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Przegląd Strategiczny – (Open Access)
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Cancer Treatment and Research Communications –
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Chinese Journal of Physics –
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Cirugía Española (English Edition) –
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Clinical Queries: Nephrology –
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Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology –
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Current Opinion in Virology –
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Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging –
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Ecological Genetics and Genomics –
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EMC – Podología –
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Endocrinología y Nutrición (English Edition) –
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Energy Storage Materials –
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Ethics, Medicine and Public Health –
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European Research in Telemedicine / La Recherche Européenne en Télémédecine –
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Gastroenterología y Hepatología (English Edition) –
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Gene Reports –
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Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment –
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Groundwater for Sustainable Development –
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Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation –
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Health Policy and Technology –
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International Medical Review on Down Syndrome –
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JACC : Clinical Electrophysiology –
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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics –
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Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma –
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Journal of Commodity Markets –
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Journal of Destination Marketing & Management –
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Journal of Herbal Medicine –
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Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education –
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Journal of Indian College of Cardiology –
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Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research –
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Journal of the World Federation of Orthodontists –
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Learning, Culture and Social Interaction –
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Materials Discovery –
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Medical Journal Armed Forces India –
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Medicina Clínica (English Edition) –
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Medicina Intensiva (English Edition) –
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Microbial Risk Analysis –
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Molecular Astrophysics –
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Expanding Edinburgh to the east

The new Aldi store, McCarthy & Stone retirement flats, and care home at the western approach to Portobello are all gradually, or in the case of the Aldi store rapidly, taking shape.

Barratt Homes have published details of their plan for Baileyfield South, quite near the new Aldi store, a proposal for 500 new homes.

As I cycled south of Portobello the other day, I noticed how quickly the development at Newcraighall is progressing.

Newcraighall, from the north

Across the road from Newcraighall another new housing estate is being constructed, Balfour Park.  If you look carefully in the background to the above photo, you can see the new-ish Queen Margaret University campus in the distance.

Now, there is a Planning Application for a development of 1330 Homes, a school and roads, at Brunstane.  Here is the proposed strategic masterplan.

Above is the site of the proposed development at Brunstane, taken from the cycleway, which stretches to the grounds of Newhailes House.

There is currently supposed to be a big shortage of new housing in Scotland, but the above, put together, are massive developments, all within one area east of the city.  No wonder there are some protests.

Marching for elephants

We took part in today’s Global March for Elephants & Rhinos.  The route went from the Meadows down to Princes Street.  There were similar marches in many cities of the world to draw attention to the plight of these wonderful animals.  Every day around 100 elephants in Africa are killed for their tusks, and the rhino situation is getting critical.

Berries

There are lots of berries on the bushes, just now.

And no-one seems to be picking them.  I took the above snap of berries near Musselburgh the other day, on the path past the River Esk floodplain below Inveresk.  As you can see, if you look closely (click on the image), hardly a single berry has been picked.  I like cycling that track because it takes me past the site of the Roman temple at Inveresk.

Looking for the Riggonhead Defile

It is perfect weather for cycling, just now in Scotland.  Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to tempt Fat Mac on to his bike, so today I went searching for the Riggonhead Defile by myself.

The Battle of Prestonpans took place on 21st Sept 1745.  271 years later to the day, by amazing coincidence rather than planning, I went cycling looking for the Riggonhead Defile down which the Jacobite army walked from Tranent, very early in the morning of the 21st, to outflank the British government forces led by Sir John Cope.  Riggonhead Defile was a path through swampy ground which took the Jacobites down towards Port Seton, to the east of Cope’s army.

I have an old map of the battle sites of Pinkie (1547), and Prestonpans (1745) on the wall in our front room, with a ‘line of march’ past Riggonhead faintly marked.  There’s a clearer map here.  Here is a print showing the Jacobites at the top of the Defile.  This map seems to show the path.  Here is a description of the battle which mentions a path through the marshland.  Here is a nice interactive map.  Last year there was a reenactment of Riggonhead March.

I’m not sure where the reenactment went, last year, and there wasn’t a reenactment this year, or at least if there was one they had finished by the time I got there, but I couldn’t find the exact site of the original defile.

The tracks have changed over the years, and there has been in the past a lot of shale mining in the area.  The land is no longer boggy.

According to my old OS map, the Defile should be to the right of the field shown above, or so.  I cycled round the whole field, but fences stopped me getting down to Cockenzie.

So I cycled back up through Tranent and along the Haddington Road, then took the first track to the left and ended up as above, but I think that this is to the east of where the Defile once ran.

That track eventually took me down, under the ‘new’ A1, to Blindwells mine water treatment plant and then on to St Germains.  Blindwells is mentioned in connection with the battle.

One thing which surprised me when reading about the battle was the relatively small size of the armies.  The number varies according to different sources, but there may have been about 2,000 Jacobite Highlanders.  Cope’s army may have been larger (up to 4,000), though many were untrained raw recruits.  The battle didn’t last long.  Cope’s light, inaccurate artillery got off a few rounds and then fled, whilst his main body of men fired one volley, which didn’t stop the Highland charge, and then fled.  Cope’s baggage train at Cockenzie containing £5,000 was captured, along with muskets and ammunition.

Lessons from the defeat at Prestonpans were learnt by the government and when the two sides met in battle at Culloden seven months later, Cumberland had a much better trained force, able to reload and trained to withstand the Highland charge.  At Culloden, the armies were larger but still relatively small.  The Jacobites had been strengthened by French, Irish and Royal Écossais units, and sources reckon numbered about 7,000.  The government troops were about 8,000.

When you consider that, according to Trevor Royle, only thirteen years later in 1759 the Duc de Choiseul gathered an army of 100,000 in Brittany with a view to invading England, it makes the armies at Prestonpans and Culloden seem very small.

Sgairneach Mhor & Beinn Udlamain

Two fairly easy Munros the other day, up near the Drummochter Pass: Sgairneach Mhor & Beinn Udlamain.

Looking east from Beinn Udlamain

I was impressed with this geological feature.

We saw a number of ptarmigan, many grouse and one hare.   On that estate they set traps (legal) for predators.