STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has won four major awards from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
Elsevier's Procedures Consult, an online medical resource that helps physicians, medical residents and students learn and test their knowledge of medical procedures, was named Best Product within the e-products category of the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards).
Receiving top honours in the nursing and allied health book category was Elsevier's Complementary Therapies for Physical Therapy: A Clinical Decision-Making Approach (written by Judith Deutsch, PT, PhD, and Ellen Anderson, PT, MA, GCS), which reveals how to incorporate evidence-based complementary therapies into a physical therapy practice.
Elsevier also received two honorable mentions in the clinical medicine category of biological and life sciences books. Its Comprehensive Pediatric Nephrology, edited by Denis Geary, MB, and Franz Schaefer, MD, reviews the epidemiology, diagnosis, investigations, management and prognosis for pediatric kidney disorders. Elsevier's Operative Techniques: Hand and Wrist Surgery, edited by Kevin Chung, MD, is a two-volume set with a Website and DVD that offers the latest techniques in hand and wrist surgery.
The PROSE awards, which were presented earlier this month, were judged by a panel of 15 judges representing PSP member companies such as McGraw-Hill and Johns Hopkins University Press, as well as librarians and academics from major educational institutions such as New York University and Columbia University. This year's competition received some 439 entries. The competition also featured the launch of an award Web site at http://www.proseaawards.com.
