Indexing
Suggested reading
Indexing for Editors and Authors: A Practical Guide to Understanding Indexes
A great introduction for any author who wants to start at square one. Covers what an index is (and what makes a good one), types of index, space issues, how indexing relates to editorial and production processes, and much more. Also available as an ebook.
Indexes: A Chapter from The Chicago Manual of Style, seventeenth ed
A good summary of the purposes of indexing and how to approach it. Used as a course textbook by some instructors.
Handbook of Indexing Techniques: A Guide for Beginning Indexers
Aimed at authors as well as new (or aspiring) indexers. Contains an excellent bibliography. Also available as an ebook.
Indexing Books, Second Edition
Mulvany is still one of the most-cited standard textbooks for the study of indexing.
Websites
Index Evaluation Checklist. By the American Society for Indexing.
Term Selection: Putting Humpty Dumpty Together, At Last (pdf). A good introduction to some indexing concepts from industry expert and indexing instructor, Sylvia Coates.
eBook Indexing. From the Publishing Technology Group of the (UK) Society of Indexers.
We Don’t Need Indexes in eBooks, Right? A discussion with Kevin Broccoli of BIM Creatives and UC Berkeley Extension.
Resources for Web Site Indexing. From the ASI’s Web and Electronic Index Special Interest Group.
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