Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that 11 LWW published journals have won 17 highly regarded awards in the 24th annual APEX Awards for Publication Excellence Competition.
Notable achievements were awarded to LWW-published journals - Emergency Medicine News and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Emergency Medicine News was awarded the Grand Award for Excellence for the third consecutive year. The award recognises outstanding work in the category of Magapapers & Newspapers. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery won in the multimedia category for its journal iPad app edition and website.
APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. Grand Awards honour the outstanding works in each main category, while Awards of Excellence recognise exceptional entries in each of the individual subcategories. Of the more than 3,400 entries in the competition, just 100 Grand Award Winners were selected.
The Apex Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition is open to communicators in corporate, nonprofit and independent settings. Sponsored by the Editors of Writer’s Web Watch, an e-newsletter on print, Web, electronic and social media, and the Writing That Works Archives, a resource for business communicators, the APEX Awards programme has been recognising publishing excellence since 1988.
