132 More Open Access and subscription Journals added to JournalTOCs

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Anthropology & Aging – (Open Access)
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Crescent Journal of Medical and Biological Sciences – (Open Access)
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European Journal of Mathematics –
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Exceptionality Education International –
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International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering –
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Journal of Palliative Care –
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International Journal of Decision Support Systems –
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Robotics and Biomimetics – (Open Access)
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Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing –
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Drugs : Real World Outcomes –
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Geoenvironmental Disasters – (Open Access)
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Behavior Analysis in Practice –
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Evolutionary Psychological Science –
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Economia Politica –
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Current Molecular Biology Reports –
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Current Stem Cell Reports –
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Journal of Religious Education –
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Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy –
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Current Sleep Medicine Reports –
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Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery –
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Göç Dergisi –
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Border Crossing : Transnational Working Papers – (Open Access)
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Science China Materials –
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Medical Science Educator –
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Nature Plants –
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Науковий вісник Національного університету біоресурсів і природокористування України. Серія: Філологічні – (Open Access)
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Nuclear Materials and Energy – (Open Access)
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Review of Agrarian Studies – (Open Access)
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Revista GeoNordeste – (Open Access)
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Synergy –
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Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society –
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Drug Safety – Case Reports – (Open Access)
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Current Forestry Reports –
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Current Climate Change Reports –
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Brain Informatics – (Open Access)
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Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy –
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Uro-News –
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hautnah dermatologie –
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Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana –
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International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics –
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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences –
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DNP – Der Neurologe und Psychiater –
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MMW – Fortschritte der Medizin –
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Surgical Case Reports – (Open Access)
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Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences –
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ChemTexts –
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Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics –
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Current Trauma Reports –
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Smart Learning Environments – (Open Access)
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Eye and Vision – (Open Access)
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Sustainable Chemical Processes – (Open Access)
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Zoological Letters – (Open Access)
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Emission Control Science and Technology –
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Climate Change Responses – (Open Access)
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences – (Open Access)
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Lettera Matematica –
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Rheumatology and Therapy – (Open Access)
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Quantum Studies : Mathematics and Foundations –
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Kurdish Studies –
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International Economics Letters –
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Journal of Social and Economic Development –
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Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology – (Open Access)
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Arnold Mathematical Journal –
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Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders – (Open Access)
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Latin American Economic Review – (Open Access)
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Sports Medicine – Open – (Open Access)
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Fungal Biology and Biotechnology – (Open Access)
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Annals of Data Science –
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Journal of Compassionate Health Care – (Open Access)
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Lexicography –
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International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology –
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CME –
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Applied Informatics – (Open Access)
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Journal of Computers in Education –
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International Journal of Coal Science & Technology – (Open Access)
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Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Naturwissenschaften –
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Avian Research – (Open Access)
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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science – (Open Access)
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Infrastructure Complexity – (Open Access)
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Italian Economic Journal –
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Computational Social Networks – (Open Access)
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Geron –
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pädiatrie : Kinder- und Jugendmedizin hautnah –
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Info Diabetologie –
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Im Focus Onkologie –
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HNO Nachrichten –
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CardioVasc –
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Rare Cancers and Therapy – (Open Access)
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HEADline –
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Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychiatrie en Gedragsneurologie  –
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Info Onkologie –
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Angewandte Schmerztherapie und Palliativmedizin –
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Journal of Chinese Sociology –
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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy – (Open Access)
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Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry – (Open Access)
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Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Diabetologie –
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Pneumo News –
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Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology – (Open Access)
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HautinForm –
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Akupunktur & Aurikulomedizin –
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Biotechnology Reports – (Open Access)
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Translational Oncology – (Open Access)
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Interdisciplinar : Revista de Estudos em Língua e Literatura – (Open Access)
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Current Issues in Emerging eLearning – (Open Access)
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Ingeniería del agua – (Open Access)
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Journal of Viruses – (Open Access)
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Journal of Food Processing – (Open Access)
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Journal of Oral Diseases – (Open Access)
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Клиническая и экспериментальная тиреоидология – (Open Access)
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ScienceRise – (Open Access)
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Comunicações – (Open Access)
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Business Perspectives and Research –
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Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies –
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Mongolian Journal of Agricultural Sciences – (Open Access)
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Tessituras : Revista de Antropologia e Arqueologia – (Open Access)
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Simbiótica – (Open Access) –
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Les Chantiers de la Création – (Open Access)
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Littératures – (Open Access)
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IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems – (Hybrid)
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Current Opinion in Insect Science –
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Critical Analysis of Law : An International & Interdisciplinary Law Review – (Open Access)
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Work, Aging and Retirement – (Open Access)
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Palgrave Communications – (Open Access)
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Breathe – (Open Access)
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Gazi Medical Journal – (Open Access)
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Revista Ambivalências – (Open Access)
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The ship has hit a rock and is sinking off foreign lands. What do you do next?

You couldn’t make this up if you tried.

The year is 1741 and England is at war with Spain over someone’s ear.  The War of Jenkins’ Ear.  The English plan is to make mischief and annoy the Spanish in the Pacific.  A squadron of ships is gathered in Portsmouth, with orders to set sail around Cape Horn.

Except that the preparations are much delayed, and no-one wants to go on this almost certain one-way trip round the other side of the world to attack the world’s most powerful empire.  Instead of able-bodied seamen and five hundred soldiers as planned, the squadron are sent 69 seamen, mostly from the sick bay ashore, 100 freshly press-ganged young sailors, and 500 men from the “Corps of Invalids” (patients from Chelsea Hospital who are old, wounded or infirm and completely unfit for service).  Of these Corps of Invalids, the ones who can walk desert on the way to Portsmouth, leaving only the extremely infirm, most of whom have to be hoisted aboard the ships because they can’t climb the ladders to reach the deck.

Despite all this, the squadron sets off.  Soon, the captain of one of the ships, the Wager, dies of unknown causes, and his place is taken by Captain Cheap.  The squadron takes months to sail south, and most of those who were previously in some way fit are hit by scurvy.  They head round the Horn.

Then the Wager becomes completely separated from the other ships.  Captain Cheap is incapacitated when he falls on deck during a week-long storm, and dislocates his shoulder.  Out of over 200 seamen and soldiers onboard, only a handful are fit enough to be on deck.  The Wager starts to lose its masts and rigging.  It hits the rocks and is badly holed.  Everyone gets on their knees and prays for mercy.  The ship starts to break up.  Day breaks and they can just about see the shore, but it looks desolate, and they believe that there are hostile Indians waiting there.

So – to get back to the subject line of this blog post – what do they do next?

In the words of Midshipman the Hon John Byron, who obviously doesn’t know it at the time but who turns out to be the grandfather of Lord Byron, they break “open every chest and box that was at hand, stove in the heads of casks of brandy and wine, as they were borne up to the hatch-ways, and got so drunk that some of them were drowned on board, and lay floating about the decks for some days after.”

As one would!

Some eventually manage to get ashore, though, again to quote Byron, “The Boatswain, and some of the people, would not leave the ship so long as there was any liquor to be got at…”

Ashore, three men die of the cold and hunger within 24 hours.  They manage to catch one seagull and eat it, but this makes them all sick.  Byron continues, “We were in all about a hundred and forty who had got to shore; but some few remained still on board, detained either by drunkenness or view of pillaging the wreck, among which was the Boatswain.  These were visited by an officer in the yawl, who was to endeavour to prevail upon them to join the rest; but finding them in the greatest disorder, and disposed to mutiny, he was obliged to desist from his purpose, and return without them.”

You’d think that things could only get better, wouldn’t you?  But I’ve just noticed that Chapter 4 is titled “The captain shoots an officer”.

I’ve started to read The Wager Disaster: Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas, by Rear Admiral C.H. Layman.  It is the true story of what happened in the 1740s, and it is gripping.

William Cockfield – final post

Back in January 2010, whilst I was jogging down the road to Musselburgh, I stopped briefly to speak to a friendly old chap with a backpack who asked me for directions.  His told me his name was William Cockfield, and you can read my original post here.  He told me that despite having only 18 pence, he was intending to walk the length of the country.  He seemed fit, warmly dressed and clean.

William Cockfield

My blog entry of January 21, 2010 was picked up by various people who posted a number of updates about William over the years.  From these I can tell that he made it to Cornwall, and then Cheshire, Liverpool and Essex, so it seems he kept walking for a long time.  Later on, he was briefly in Basildon Hospital, and then a care home.

I was very pleased that so many people posted update comments on my original blog post, which they must have found by googling ‘William Cockfield’.  Each of them seems to have appreciated that William was quite a character.

William ended up in one of the Regal Care Homes.  The manager of the care home contacted me on Monday to say that William had passed away peacefully in his sleep that morning.  She continued, “I am sure he is now lacing up his hiking boots ready for his next journey R.I.P. Will, we will miss you!!”

Chinese tea ceremony

We enjoyed a tea ceremony for four at Kung Fu Tea, Haymarket, yesterday.  We had three teas – one non-fermented Pu’er, one post-fermented, and one white.  All were very nice, though I enjoyed the white the most.

152 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 25,000 scholarly journals, including more than 8,300 Open Access journals, and is the largest freely available collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents.

There is also a low-cost institutional version of JournalTOCs, called JournalTOCs Premium.

Brésil(s) – (Open Access)
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Em Questão – (Open Access)
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ASTRA Proceedings – (Open Access)
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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Global Open – (Open Access)
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Buletin Peternakan : Bulletin of Animal Science –
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Biophysics – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health – (Open Access)
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Applied Physics – (Open Access)
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Advances in Porous Flow – (Open Access)
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Advances in Marine Sciences – (Open Access)
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Asian Case Reports in Vascular Medicine – (Open Access)
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Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law –
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Berkeley Technology Law Journal – (Free)
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Chicago Journal of International Law –
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Information Today –
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Computers in Libraries –
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Defense Counsel Journal –
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Energy Law Journal –
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Asian Journal of Legal Education –
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Labor Law Journal –
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Law & Psychology Review –
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Michigan Journal of Gender and Law – (Free)
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Michigan Journal of Race & Law – (Free)
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Pittsburgh Tax Review – (Open Access)
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American Banker –
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Georgetown Journal of International Law –
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University of Chicago Law Review –
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Virginia Tax Review –
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Yale Journal of International Law – (Free)
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Abriu : Textuality Studies on Brazil, Galicia and Portugal – (Open Access)
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World Journal of Engineering and Technology – (Open Access)
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Spectral Analysis Review – (Open Access)
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International Research Journal of York University – (Open Access)
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Jurnal Jaffray – (Open Access)
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Advances in Environmental Protection – (Open Access)
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Asian Case Reports in Veterinary Medicine – (Open Access)
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Asian Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology – (Open Access)
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Refleksi – (Open Access)
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Studia Orientalia Electronica – (Open Access)
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Temenos – (Open Access)
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Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education – (Open Access)
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Social Networking – (Open Access)
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Astronomy and Astrophysics – (Open Access)
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Advances in Applied Mathematics – (Open Access)
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Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism – (Open Access)
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Den Gamle By : Danmarks Købstadmuseum (Årbog) – (Open Access)
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Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research – (Open Access)
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Fontanus – (Open Access)
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Rivista Italiana di Antitrust / Italian Antitrust Review – (Open Access)
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Caravelle – (Open Access)
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Corpus Eve : Émergence du vernaculaire en Europe – (Open Access)
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Journal of Building Materials and Structures – (Open Access)
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Pain Studies and Treatment – (Open Access)
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Botanical Research – (Open Access)
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Ar-Raniry : International Journal of Islamic Studies – (Open Access)
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Advances in Historical Studies – (Open Access)
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Vehicular Communications –
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Journal of High Energy Astrophysics –
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Society and Culture in South Asia –
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Sociology of Race and Ethnicity –
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Annual Review of Linguistics –
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Journal of Water Process Engineering –
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Regenerative Biomaterials – (Open Access)
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Advances in Journalism and Communication – (Open Access)
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Advances in Enzyme Research – (Open Access)
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Advances in Entomology – (Open Access)
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Journal of Advanced Research in Medicine – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Genetics & Cancer – (Open Access)
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Journal of Communicable Diseases – (Open Access)
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Journal of Advanced Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering – (Open Access)
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Linha D’Água – (Open Access)
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ABC Journal of Advanced Research – (Open Access)
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Open Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation – (Open Access)
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Bioprocess – (Open Access)
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Advances in Social Sciences – (Open Access)
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Asian Case Reports in Genetics – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Mathematical Modelling & Computations – (Open Access)
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Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia – (Open Access)
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Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering – (Open Access)
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Pratiques : Linguistique, littérature, didactique – (Open Access)
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Journal of Advanced Research in Medical Science and Technology – (Open Access)
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Cinémas d’Amérique latine – (Open Access)
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Les Nouvelles de l’archéologie – (Open Access)
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International Journal of the Digital Human –
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Études Épistémè – (Open Access)
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Mediscope – (Open Access)
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Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology – (Open Access)
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Bangladesh Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology – (Open Access)
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Bangladesh Medical Journal – (Open Access)
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Bangladesh Rice Journal – (Open Access)
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Bangladesh Veterinarian – (Open Access)
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Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin – (Open Access)
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Journal of Mechanical Engineering – (Open Access)
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Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering – (Open Access)
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Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University – (Open Access)
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Pulse : Medical Journal of Apollo Hospitals Dhaka – (Open Access)
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Rajshahi University Journal of Life & Earth and Agricultural Sciences – (Open Access)
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Africa Sanguine –
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African Journal of Economic Policy –
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AFRREV IJAH : An International Journal of Arts and Humanities – (Open Access)
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AFRREV LALIGENS : An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies – (Open Access)
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AFRREV STECH : An International Journal of Science and Technology – (Open Access)
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Annales des Sciences Agronomiques –
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Archives of Medical and Biomedical Research – (Open Access)
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Botswana Journal of Technology –
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East African Journal of Public Health –
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East and Central African Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences – (Open Access)
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Egyptian Journal of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology – (Open Access)
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Ethiopian Journal of Business and Economics –
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Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities –
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Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Journal –
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Filosofia Theoretica : Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions – (Open Access)
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Ghana Journal of Geography – (Open Access)
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Global Approaches to Extension Practice : A Journal of Agricultural Extension –
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Global Journal of Environmental Sciences –
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Highland Medical Research Journal –
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Advances in Biology – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Basic, Applied and Innovative Research – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Community Research – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Herbs and Pharmacological Research – (Open Access)
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Journal of Development and Communication Studies – (Open Access)
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Sciences de la société – (Open Access)
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Malawi Journal of Science and Technology – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Social Work – (Open Access)
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Case Studies in Business and Management – (Open Access)
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International Finance and Banking – (Open Access)
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Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation – (Open Access)
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Research in Business and Management – (Open Access)
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International Journal of Culture and History – (Open Access)
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Issues in Social Science – (Open Access)
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Malawi Journal of Science and Technology – (Open Access)
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Medical Journal of Zambia – (Open Access)
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New Agenda : South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy –
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New Egyptian Journal of Microbiology –
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Nigeria Agricultural Journal –
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Nigerian Journal of Biotechnology – (Open Access)
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Nigerian Journal of Chemical Research –
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Nigerian Journal of Family Practice –
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Nigerian Journal of Guidance and Counselling –
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Nigerian Quarterly Journal of Hospital Medicine –
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Regional Maritime University Journal –
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Mountain Film Festival

I very much enjoyed the various short films shown at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival in the George Square Theatre on Saturday evening.  The show was a sellout.

The films included: A Bit Like Norway; Stone Free; Wild Kaiser Extreme; The Ridge; Afterglow.  Two were about skiing, one about climbing, and two about mountain biking.  After the films, Cory Richards gave a fascinating talk.

Afterwards, we ate at Koyama, in Forrest Road.

Empire of Sand

I wanted to know more about how politics in the Middle East developed in the past, and the role of Britain in this process, so I’ve been reading: Empire of Sand: How Britain made the Middle East, by Walter Reid.

Reid covers a lot of ground, and gives a background to numerous countries in the Middle East.  Many of the problems of that area seem to have developed since the various settlements after the First World War, though it is with hindsight that we can say that these were unstisfactory.  At the time, Britain was more concerned with what the French might do, rather than the rights of the local populations, which were in any case rarely stated in any coherent form.

I had not realised how much Britain had been involved in Iran for several decades (mainly to secure oil), and how much the French were disliked for their involvement in Syria up to 1946.