Useful indexing-related resources
Indexing organisations
- Society of Indexers (UK)
- American Society for Indexing
- Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers (ASAIB)
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI)
- China Society of Indexers (CSI)
- German Network of Indexers / Deutsches Netzwerk der Indexer (DNI)
- Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d'indexation (ISC / SCI)
- Netherlands Indexing Network / Nederlands Indexers Netwerk (NIN)
Other related organisations
- Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
- The Information Architecture Institute
- Society of Editors and Proofreaders (UK)
Finding an indexer
- Indexers Available online directory (Society of Indexers)
- Contract Web-Indexer Search (Web Indexing Special Interest Group)
Indexing courses
The following indexing courses are available in the UK or by distance-learning. The Society of Indexers course is the standard route for most UK Indexers and leads to the award of the status of Accredited Indexer (AI).
- Society of Indexers - Training in Indexing distance-learning course: successful candidates are officially accredited by the Society of Indexers (UK). Based on British and International Standards.
- Allegro Technical Indexing Training Courses: courses for technical writers (both on site and delivered by email/phone)
- Hedden Information Management Courses: includes distance-learning courses
- Basic Indexing Course and Applied Indexing, Graduate School, USDA: Popular distance-learning courses
- Indexing: Theory and Application (UC Berkeley): distance-learning course
- Work at Home: Learn to Index - A Practical Course on Freelance Indexing: a distance-learning course delivered via a three-cassette video and workshop package
Software
- Indexing
- Other indexing utilities
- HTML Indexer
- Word Embed
- HTMLPrep
- FineCount - freeware word counting and invoicing software - useful if you quote per 1000 words rather than a page rate
Useful websites/articles/blogs about indexing
- Suite 101 website
- The Future of Indexing?, Writers UA website
- Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog
- Software for indexing, Martin Tulic
- Cambridge University Press XML Indexing System (CUP-XML)