For Immediate Release

February 7, 200

Contact: Barbara Meredith
Ph: 212/255-0200 ext.223
Email: bmeredith@publishers.org

Association of American Publishers Honors Outstanding Achievements in Professional and Scholarly Publishing

Continuing a 30 -Year Tradition of Honoring Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing

The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) today announced that, this year, awards judges have chosen two winners for the R.R. Hawkins Award from opposite, yet equally important, ends of the professional and scholarly publishing spectrum.  Elsevier’s Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy, by Kenneth Moses, MD, John C. Banks, PhD, Pedro B. Nava, PhD, and Darrell Petersen and The Oxford History of Western Music, by Richard Taruskin, published by Oxford University Press, are dual winners of this year’s Hawkins award.  This is the first year that two winners have been chosen to receive the R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional, Reference or Scholarly Work.

The awards will be presented today at a special awards luncheon during the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, DC.   In addition to the R.R. Hawkins Award, which is named for the former head of the Science and Technology Division of the New York Public Library, awards will be presented in 30 categories for outstanding books, journals, and digital products covering a wide range of academic disciplines.

Noting that “promoting and encouraging the dissemination of scholarship is one of AAP’s primary missions,” AAP President and CEO Pat Schroeder extended the Association’s congratulations to Richard Taruskin and Oxford University Press, and to  Kenneth Moses, MD, John C. Banks, PhD, Pedro B. Nava, PhD, Darrell Petersen, and Elsevier.  Mrs. Schroeder also congratulated all of the award recipients.  “Being recognized for excellence is always an honor,” Mrs. Schroeder said, “but when that recognition comes from your peers, the honor is truly significant.  The award winners in each category were selected for their unique contribution to scholarly publishing and are considered by our panel of judges to be the best of the best for 2005.”   The award winners were chosen by a nine-member expert panel consisting of librarians, academics, and working publishers.

Information on the Hawkins Award winners and a complete list of the winners in all categories will be available on the  PSP web site at: www.pspcentral.org.

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