The Spanish Union of University Publishers (UNE) has awarded the University of Oviedo with the prizes for best work edited in 2012, for the book titled Transacciones. España en la historia de la Royal Society, and for the best co-edition with a private publisher, for Ad Orientem (University of Oviedo and Ménsula Ediciones), two awards that belong to the 14th Edition of the National Awards of University Publishing, in which 140 works participated.

Transacciones, which has been praised by the jury for its "quality and originality in its edition and the novelty of its materials and its design", was published in relation to the exhibition that took place in 2011 at the University Library devoted to the Royal Society, Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities of that year. The book compiles photographies of items that had been exhibited in our country for the first time, in order to make a homage to the participation of Spanish scientists throughout history. The texts of Transacciones have been written by Armando Menéndez del Viso, Professor of the University of Oviedo, while Manuel Fernández was responsible for the design.

In turn, Ad Orientem. From the end of the Paleolithic in the north of Spain to the first civilizations in the Near East, which was praise by the jury for "the quality of its edition and presentation", gathers the studies conducted as a tribute to the Professor of this academic institution and archeologist Juan Antonio Fernández-Tresguerres, who passed away in 2011.

The jury has been made up by the following people: Nuria Azancot, editor-in-chief of El Cultural of El Mundo; Laura Revuelta, editor-in-chief of the ABC Cultural; Teresa M. Peces, director of the Delibros journal; Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga, director of the Department of Cultural Activities of the Cervantes Institute, and Alejandro Cremades, vice-general director of Formation and Mobility of the Teaching Staff and Teaching Innovation of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.

For the first time since the National Awards for University Publishing have started, any citizen who wishes to do so may see and read the award-winning books and the rest of those that have participated in the sixteenth edition of the competition, since the competing works are being exhibited at the Scientific Library CSIC-UNE of Madrid until October 7.