PSP Awards for Excellence

The PSP Awards for Excellence recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content, published annually in 28 disciplines. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PSP Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth.

Each year, publishers and authors are recognized at the annual PSP conference in Washington for their commitment to pioneering works of research and for contributing to the conception, production, and design of landmark works in their fields. The penultimate prize given for the most outstanding work, the R. R. Hawkins Award, has been given to more than 30 works since its inception, and has included works as wide-ranging as Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, Yale University Press, and Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy, Elsevier. Last year, Harvard University Press was the recipient of the R. R. Hawkins Award for Evolutionary Dynamics by Martin Nowak.

Following an extensive survey of the membership in June, 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.

You can find the details on judging criteria, eligibility rules, and the entry form at the PSP website: www.pspcentral.org/awards

For more information contact Romina Naveira at 212-255-0200 x226 or rnaveira@publishers.org