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journals that would publish maritime material (with the exception of Bass, 1967).
Since that time, the situation has changed dramatically and there are a number of alternatives. The inauguration of the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology in 1971, by the late Joan du Plat Taylor, provided the maritime archaeologist a venue for publication. Material of up to 5000 words is accepted and the bi-annual publication means that material gets to press without undue delay. For larger reports, the journal British Archae- ological Reports is an alternative offering a very fast publication time. The series accepts both British and international archaeological reports and although the printing is not of the highest quality, the publication is widely circulated, the cost of a volume is modest, and authors may, if they wish, provide the work properly typeset greatly improving the appearance. A number of maritime archaeological reports have been published in this series including Cederlund (1983), Fenwick (1978), Fletcher (1978), Green (1977a,b; 1989), Langley and Unger (1984), Lipke (1984), McGrail (1977, 1979), McGrail and Kentley (1985), and Redknap (1984). More recently Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers have commenced a high quality–low cost series: The Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology (Staniforth, 2003; Ruppé and Barstad, 2002; McCarthy, 2001; Sousa and Gould, 1998; Babits and Tilberg, 1998). There is the possibility of commercial publica- tion, but it is difficult to persuade a publisher to print a maritime archaeo- logical report because these works appeal to a limited audience and even with an outrageous price tag they are usually not economical. As an alter- native, some authors have utilized in-house publication facilities to produce very high-quality works (Bass and van Doorninck, 1982; Bruce-Mitford, 1975). Other authors have found scholarly monograph series to publish their work (Bass, 1967; Frost, 1981; Tchernia et al., 1978). Some institutions have published a series of medium-quality archaeological reports, e.g., the Rijksdienst voor de IJsselmeerpolders, Smedinghuis, Lelystad (Reinders, 1977, 1982, 1983; Reinders et al., 1978, 1980, 1984); the Statens Sjøhistoriska Museum, Stockholm (Cederlund, 1981, 1982, 1985; Kaijser, 1981); and the Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum (Green and Stanbury, 1988; Stanbury, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1983). The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich also produces a series of reports in conjunction with British Archaeological Reports (Fenwick, 1978; Lipke, 1984; McGrail, 1977, 1979, 1979; McGrail and Kentley, 1985; Redknap, 1984). Other organizations and journals that accept maritime archaeologi- cal material are the Proceedings of the Conference on Underwater Archae- ology (Arnold, 1978; Cockrell, 1981; Johnston, 1985; Watts, 1981), which is now published by the Society for Historical Archaeology, The Bulletin of the Australian Institute of Maritime Archaeology, Archaeonautica.