PROSE Awards

PROSE Awards
Awarded for	'...the very best in professional and scholarly publishing.'
Country	United States
Presented by	The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
First awarded	1976
Website	http://proseawards.com/index.html

The PROSE Awards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) are presented by the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division.^[1]

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:^[2]

• 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.