A website where publishers can find indexers’ profiles and reach out with the touch of a button.
Author: Sanet le Roux
Reading Like an Indexer – blog post by stephen ullstrom
2023 Freelance Indexer Survey
This survey is about the business practices of the freelance indexer. Michelle poses questions about annual earnings and the number of books indexed in 2021, 2022, and the first half of 2023. There are also questions about indexing specialties, such as scholarly indexing and trade book indexing. Rush rates and embedded indexing are covered as well. You can even add your own thoughts about your business practices at the end of the survey.
Freelance Indexer Exchange podcast
Michelle hosts a podcast for freelance business owners who specialize in indexing books, websites, documents, and digital content. In each episode of the Freelance Indexer Exchange podcast, she takes an in-depth dive into the business of indexing, providing an authentic, personal look at the ups and downs of freelance life.
Bookcareers.com podcast episode on Indexing: an interview with Ruth Ellis
This podcast episode focuses on the specialist editorial skill of Indexing. How important is an index to the sales of a book? What skills do you need to be an Indexer and how much does it pay? We interview Ruth Ellis from The Society of Indexers and find out the answer to these questions and more.
Listen here: https://www.bookcareers.com/specialist-editorial-skills-indexing-bookcareers-live/
Indexing Books as a Career: a free, self-paced online course by Sylvia Coates
This course provides basic information on writing back-of-the-book indexes and working as a professional indexer. It is not intended to substitute for a comprehensive indexing course but is appropriate for individuals wanting to explore indexing as a career. This course will also inform both editors and self-publishing authors by providing an overview of the process of indexing and working with indexers.
If you would like to register for this MOOC you may go to https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/WHM7D7 to sign up.
Indexing Day 2019 #indexday
A social media summary of #indexday on wakelet:
https://wakelet.com/wake/0bcb9e6a-4ba0-4cee-a84c-8bec7024dc55
‘Indexing Decoded – Seven Days to Writing an Awesome Index’
This free email course by Stephen Ullstrom demystifies the indexing process. In seven daily lessons, delivered to your inbox.
More here: http://www.stephenullstrom.com/indexing-decoded/
What is indexing? – Continued
Parts 4 and 5 in a series of articles about indexing by Ælfwine Mischler:
Book Indexes — Part 4: The Metatopic
Indexes — Part 5: Names in Indexes
‘Catalogue and Index’ September 2018 issue
The September 2018 issue of ‘Catalogue and Index’, is a special issue on indexing. This periodical is published by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group, a Special Interest Group of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).
You can download a PDF of the whole issue or individual articles at https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201298&id=760736
Contents:
- FAST forward? By Alan Danskin
- Methodologies for classifying repositories, by Robert T. Kasenchak
- Subject indexing in a repository, by Clare Playforth
- History of index creation, by Helen Bilton
- Comedic indexes, by Paula Clarke Bain
- Foundation of the Society of Indexers, by Rosemary Dear
- Directions in indexing, by Pilar Wyman
- Changed needed in the subject index, by Liz Antell
- Online language classification, by Lucile Deslignères
- Machine translation, by Lynne Bowker
- Retrospective cataloguing Case study, by Max Zanotti
- CILIP Conference 2018 report, by Lynn Thorn
- Letters & responses