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Physiology and APS Receives PROSE Award

Figure 1 – Martin Frank and Rita Scheman receive plaque from Tom Allen, President and CEO, Association of American Publishers, Inc. (Photo by James Kim, James Kim Photography)

The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers announced the winners of the 2009 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) at their Annual Meeting on February 4^th. The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories.  The 2009 PROSE Awards received a record-breaking 441 entries – more than ever before in its 34-year history – from more than 60 professional and scholarly publishers across the country.  The prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award recognizes exceptional scholarly works in all disciplines of the arts and sciences, and is given for the most outstanding professional, reference or scholarly work among the year’s award winners. The 2009 R.R. Hawkins Award was presented to two publishers: The University of Chicago Press for Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues, and John Wiley & Sons for Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs).  While this isn’t the first time the Hawkins has been awarded to two presses since the PSP Awards program launched in 1976, this is the first time an eProduct has taken home the Hawkins prize.  The selection of Wiley for the Hawkins Award is important because APS has partnered with Wiley to use the WIREs platform to launch the APS Handbooks of Physiology Online later this year. The new online book project is called Comprehensive Physiology.

In addition to Wiley, other award winners included Elsevier, Modern Language Association, Oxford University Press, The Johns Hopkins University Press, American Institute of Physics, Louisiana State University Press, and the American Physiological Society (http://www.proseawards.com/news.html). The APS was recognized for Physiology which received an award for Journal/Best Design in Print.