Fully funded! ...Now what?

 

So, super exciting, the project is fully funded!

Super giant thank you to everyone who donated and/or shared the link.  You guys are the BEST.

From here on out I will move forward with getting everything in order to start this second phase of my dissertation research and y'all will start receiving updates from the actual lab.  I'll try to post about once a week with a picture or something about how we are doing.

That said - there are three days left.  As I stated previously, any funds over the requested amount will be used for travel to conferences or open access publication.

I had a vague notion that open access could be expensive, but hadn't really looked into it.  Guys, it is *really* expensive (relative to my project budget).

Here are major anthropology/archeology journals and some spectroscopy journals that regularly publish archaeology work, their impact factor and the price for open access publishing:

 

So, Current Anthropology isn't exactly the first place I would imagine me sending articles about my dissertation, but they do publish archaeology and I would like to *try* to get something published open access.  While the publication process can be fraught with perils, if we can raise an additional $400 I would certainly attempt to publish an article in Current Anthropology that everyone can access it.  And we will see!  If they reject the article because they do not think it fits within their scope, those funds will be diverted to defraying costs associated with conference travel.