The PROSE Awards are presented by the Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division. Presented since 1976, the awards annually recognize distinguished professional and scholarly books, reference works, journals, and electronic content. The awards are judged by peer publishers, academics, librarians, and medical professionals. Publishers and authors are honored at a luncheon ceremony at the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, DC. In recent years, the PROSE Awards luncheon has featured a live webcast of the event, original short films and several multimedia presentations highlighting winners. Awards by the numbers:
Five “best of” awards chosen from 53 book, reference, journal and e-product categories;
Forty-five book subject categories for traditional print, electronic publications and print/electronic packages; and
Six awards for electronic products, including electronic platforms and e-products with multiple components.
Electronic publication categories – For electronic products, including electronic platforms and e-products with multiple components. Electronic platforms and products are recognized in the following six categories:
Journals categories – For print and electronic journals.
Best New Journal in Science, Technology and Medicine
Best New Journal in Social Sciences and Humanities
The PROSE Awards for Excellence – Chosen from among the winners of the books, eproducts and journals categories. One winner is recognized in each of the following categories:
Award for Excellence in Biology and Life Sciences
Award for Excellence in Humanities
Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
The R. R. Hawkins Award has been presented to the most outstanding work among each year’s PROSE Awards entries since they began in 1976. Hawkins winners have included Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews , Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis and David Richardson, The Diffusion Handbook and Alan Turing: His Work and Impact edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen. The 2016 R.R. Hawkins Award was presented to University of California Press for The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology by Aldon Morris.
