PSP PROSE Awards

Continuing a 35-Year Tradition of Honoring and Celebrating the
Range and Diversity of Professional and Scholarly Publishing

About the PSP PROSE Awards

The PROSE Awards recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals and electronic content, published annually.  Judged by a distinguished panel of peer publishers, librarians, academics and medical professionals, and presented since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth.

Each year, publishers and authors are recognized at the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, DC, for their commitment to pioneering works of research and for contributing to the conception, production and design of landmark works in their fields.  The R.R. Hawkins Award, presented to the most outstanding work among the publications selected, has been given to 36 works since its inception.  Indeed, winners represent a broad range of disciplines: they have included Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy (Elsevier), The Dream of the Poem (Princeton University Press) and Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press).

This year’s award’s planning committee has undertaken a number of changes to strengthen the level of participation among member publishers and the representation of published projects, especially journals and electronic publications.  In addition to presenting a total of 50 awards, more than ever before, the 2011 PROSE program is expanding its book subject and journals categories to include electronic publications, for a more media-agnostic program that reflects the movement of our industry.