INDEXING RESOURCES ON THE WWW -- Back-OF-THE-BOOK INDEXING
Creating Back-of-the-Book Indexes
About Indexing
and Indexes, by Kari Kells
Alphabetizing an Index, by Fred Brown
Author-created
Indexes vs. Third-party Professional Indexes, by Seth
Maslin
Awards
for Indexing: the Wheatley Medal [Society of Indexers]
A to
Z: The Newsletter of STC’s Indexing SIG
Berghahn
Books: House Style Sheet -- American English -- A Guide
for Authors, Editors, and Copyeditors
Cambridge University Press Indexing Guidelines
Can't the
Index be Written by a Computer?, by Martha
Osgood
Choosing Index
Styles, by Kari Kells
Company
Technical Indexing Guidelines, by Jan Wright [PDF document]
Cookbook
Indexing: Not as Easy as ABC, by Rose Grant
Cookbook
section of Indexing from A to Z, by Hans Wellisch
Cross-References:
Beyond the Usual, by David K. Reame
The
Culinary Guild of New England, Indexing: An Entry, by
Elizabeth Parson
Curing
the Over-Indexing Blues, by Dawn Spencer [from Suite
101]
Does Your Document
Need an Index?, by Kari Kells
Editing
Indexes, by Fred Brown
Editing Indexes
Written by Non-indexers, by Kari Kells
Editing
Your Index: A Guide for Project Managers, by Janis Paris
Embedded
vs. Stand-alone Indexes, by Fred Brown
An Encounter with Julia Child (Diane Worden)
End
of the Index, by Dawn Spencer [from Suite 101]
Estimating
the Size of an Index, excerpt from Indexing Books,
by Nancy Mulvany
Famous
& Favorite Entries [click on Indexing Info],
by L. Pilar Wyman
Favorite Quotes on Indexing, by Lori Lathrop
Finding
Information in Different Ways, by Fred Brown
Formatting Indexes, by Fred Brown
Gathering
Together, by Fred Brown
Getting
Into The Pink After the Over-Indexing Blues, by Dawn
Spencer [from Suite 101]
Great Indexes, by Fred Brown
Guide
for Authors by the Editors of Columbia University Press
History of Indexing
How Deep Should an Index Be?, by Seth A. Maslin
How to Contract with a Book Indexer, or "Hi, Can You Do an
Index for Me in Three Days?" by Dan Connolly
How
to Edit an Index [PDF document]
H.
W. Wilson Award [American Society for Indexing]
Index. by
Anonymous, by Dan Connolly
Index Design Checklist, by Seth A. Maslin
Index Estimator [pdf file], by Lori Lathrop
Index Evaluation Checklist
Index Evaluation
Exercises, by Daniel A. Connolly
Index Length:
Considerations and Examples, by Kari Kells
An Index
or a Concordance for Your Book? , by Daniel A. Connolly
Harvard University Press Indexing Guidelines
How do I index thee? Indexers count the ways: Part I (Kari Kells)
How do I index thee? Indexers count the ways: Part II (Kari Kells)
Index
Specifications Worksheet [from IndexEmpire], by Jean
Middleton
Index
Usability Test Questions (for online indexes or printed
indexes), by Lori Lathrop
Indexes:
A Guide to Authors Preparing Their Own Wesleyan University
Press
Indexes
Censured [from The Indexer]
Indexes
in Classic Cookbooks: An Analysis of the Indexes in The
Joy of Cooking, 1931 - 1997, by Catherine Sassen
Indexes
Praised [from The Indexer]
IndexArts Style Preference Sheet , by Carol Darwin Deason
Indexing, by Dawn Spencer [from Suite 101]
Indexing
Acronyms, by Fred Brown
Indexing
Chapter Excerpt from Recipes into Type, by Joan
Whitman and Dolores Simon
Indexing
FAQ: Part 1, by Lori Lathrop
Indexing FAQ: Part 2, by Lori Lathrop
Indexing
Integrated Manual Sets at Northern Telecom, by Frank
Exner, Little Bear
Indexing
Names, by Fred Brown
The Indexing Process,
by Marilyn Joyce Rowland [click on "Articles"]
The
Indexing Process--Part 1, by Dawn Spencer [follow
links for subsequent parts] [from Suite 101]
Indexing Technical Documents: An Interview with Lori Lathrop
Indexing
User Tasks, by Fred Brown
Indexing
Without Page Numbers, by Seth Maslin
Key
to a Better Index [from Sunriver Indexing]
The
Lighter Side of Indexing. by William L. Collins
The
Mysteries of Fiction Indexing
NIAS
Publishing Indexing Guidelines
Never
Suffer From the Over-Indexing Blues Again!, by Dawn
Spencer [from Suite 101]
Ohio
State University Press Indexing Guidelines
An Overview
of Indexing Methods, by Jan Wright
Oxford
University Press Indexing Guidelines
Page-Breaking
and Column-Breaking an Index, by Seth Maslin
Page
Proofs--Part 1, by Dawn Spencer [follow links for subsequent
parts] [from Suite 101]
A Piece of Cake? Cookbook Indexing — Basic Guidelines and Resources (Cynthia D. Bertelsen)
Policy
Press Indexing Guidelines
Prentice
Hall Author Guide: The Index
Preparing
to Index, by Fred Brown
Process
of Indeing a Book, by Martha Osgood [Back Words Indexing]
Put
Your Index to the Test, by Fred Brown
Reflections
on Authorship and Indexing , by Nancy C. Mulvany
Reviewing
and Proofreading a Draft Index, by Seth A. Maislin
The Second Step--Rough Draft Indexes, by Dawn Spencer
[from Suite 101]
"See
also" Cross-references, by Fred Brown
Should
Indexes Have Letter Heads?, by Seth A. Maislin
Should Authors Index Their own Books?, from Back Words
Indexing
Steps for Reviewing an Index, by Catherine Dettmar
Style Guidelines
[from Kingsley Indexing Services]
Style
Preferences [from IndexEmpire], by Jean Middleton
Subheadings,
by Fred Brown
Synonyms,
by Fred Brown
Ten
Common Mistakes in Indexing. by Heather Hall
Top
Ten Reasons Humans Create Better Indexes Than Computers
Term Selection: Putting Humpty Dumpty Together, At Last (Sylvia Coates)
Term Selection
Exercises on IndexStudents: Practice Makes Perfect (or better,
at least), by Dan Connolly
Tips
for Creating Great Indexes , by Lori Lathrop
Toward a Standard
Measure of Index Density, by Daniel A. Connolly and
Cynthia Landeen
Usability
Testing at Macmillan USA, by Christine Nelsen Ryan and
Sandra Henselmeier
University of Georgia Press Indexing Guidelines
University
of Michigan Press Author's Guide
Value
of Indexing, by Fred Brown
What Exactly
is Indexing?, by Kari Kells
What
Is Indexing?, by Dawn Spencer [from Suite 101]
What’s
Going On in Indexing?, by Nancy Mulvany
Why
an Index?, by Fred Brown
Why
Do I Need an Index? [from TechCom Plus -- designed for
non-indexers]
Why
Indexing Fails, and How to Solve It, by Ed Marshall
The
World Bank Publications Style Guide
