AccessPediatrics Wins 2011 PROSE Award

February 2, 2012 (Washington, DC) – AccessPediatrics (www.accesspediatrics.com/), a McGraw-Hill product developed by Silverchair Information Systems, was awarded the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Best eProduct in Biological & Life Sciences. The award was announced today by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP).

McGraw-Hill’s AccessPediatrics (http://www.accesspediatrics.com), launched on SCM, Silverchair’s web content delivery platform, in May 2011. This innovative online resource for pediatrics residents, students, and educators provides searchable, full-text access to 13 leading McGraw-Hill pediatric medicine textbooks, including Rudolph’s Pediatrics and Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics; curricular management tracking and testing tools; more than 40 animations detailing pediatric procedures and exam walkthroughs, from descriptions of anatomy to the details of pathophysiology; Q&A that helps prepare for the United States Medical Licensing Examination as well as the pediatrics specialty board exam; practical skill-building tools; and thousands of images.

Using Silverchair’s renowned semantic architecture, AccessPediatrics employs a customized, evidenced-based user interface design and a powerful semantic search, brings together a diverse array of content assets in one cohesive and compelling information resource, as now recognized by the PROSE awards.

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