AMSTERDAM, February 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced receiving an Honorary Mention at the 2013 PROSE Awards for its journal Global Food Security in the category Best New Journal in Science, Technology and Medicine. The official announcement was made at the Association of American Publishers' (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Annual Conference in Washington, DC yesterday.

Helping to tackle the world's hunger crisis and given the rapidly evolving nature of scientific knowledge and information on global food security, in 2012 Elsevier launched Global Food Security as a new multidisciplinary journal to cover this niche.

"I believe that recognition from the American Publishers Awards of our new Global Food Security journal reflects two attributes," said Editor-in-Chief Ken Cassman, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA.  "First, it recognizes increasing awareness of food security as the foundation of a sustainable future for humanity in terms of economic development, curbing population growth, improved nutrition and health, conservation of natural resources and environmental quality, and dealing with climate change. Second, it reflects the high quality of the authors and papers published in our first issues on these topics-a trend the Editors and I are committed to continuing."

Gilles Jonker, Executive Publisher at Elsevier, added, "We are very proud to be recognized with a PROSE honorable mention in the category Best New Journal STM. It is because of the excellent editorial team, the authors and reviewers that we are able to make this important new Journal for this emerging research community."

Global Food Security publishes four issues per year, which are available via ScienceDirect.

Overall, six books and one journal published by Elsevier received a total of 10 Prose Awards.

The full list of awards received by Elsevier is:

• R.R. Hawkins Award:

Alan Turing: His Work and Impact by Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen

• Best in Physical Sciences & Mathematics

Alan Turing: His Work and Impact by Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen

• Best in Reference Works

Epigenetic Regulation in the Nervous System: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Impact by David Sweatt, Michael Meaney, Eric Nestler and Schahram Akbarian

• Environmental Science

Fukushima Accident: Radioactivity Impact on the Environment by Pavel Povinec, Katsumi Hirose and Michio Aoyama (featured in a previous press release)

• Multivolume Reference/Science

Encyclopedia of Sleep by Clete Kushida

• Single Volume Reference/Science

Epigenetic Regulation in the Nervous System: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Impact by David Sweatt, Michael Meaney, Eric Nestler and Schahram Akbarian

• Mathematics

Alan Turing: His Work and Impact by Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen

• Chemistry & Physics - Honorable Mention

Encyclopedia of the Alkaline Earth Compounds by Richard Ropp

• Single Volume Reference/Science - Honorable Mention

Handbook of Systems Biology by Marian Walhout, Marc Vidal and Job Dekker

• Best New Journal/STM - Honorable Mention

Global Food Security

About The PROSE Awards

The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth. http://www.proseawards.com  

This year's competition attracted 535 entries of books, reference works, journals and electronic products in more than 40 categories; this represents the sixth consecutive year of record-breaking entries.

About Global Food Security

Global Food Security aims to publish papers that contribute to better understanding of economic, social, biophysical, technological, and institutional drivers of current and future global food security. The Journal aims to provide readers with:

• Strategic views of experts from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives on prospects for ensuring food security, based on the best available science, in a clear and readable form for a wide audience, bridging the gap between biological, social and environmental sciences.
• Reviews, opinions and debates that synthesize, extend and critique research approaches and findings from the rapidly growing body of original publications on global food security.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, Reaxys, ClinicalKey and Mosby's Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, helping research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world leading provider of professional information solutions. The group employs more than 30,000 people, including more than 15,000 in North America. Reed Elsevier Group PLC is owned equally by two parent companies, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. Their shares are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RUK and ENL.

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