Indexing Service

The final stage in document production is compiling the index. Many documents require an index to allow the reader to find information on a particular topic quickly and easily.  Punctuation Matters offers a traditional Back of the Book indexing service for the compilation of indexes in books, manuals and CD-ROMs.

The service includes:

• devise suitable index terms to express the concepts in the text concisely and precisely
• organize the index so that users can easily find what they are looking for
• work to a very high standard of accuracy

Back-of-book style indexes ... provide significantly improved access, saving time and cost, for the information seeker. — James Lamb,  What is wrong with full text searches and why do I need an index where full text searches are available? (2004)

So essential do I consider an Index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a Bill into Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a book without an Index of the privilege of copyright; and, moreover, to subject him, for his offence, to a pecuniary penalty. — Baron Campbell (Scottish lawyer and politician; Lord Chancellor, 1859), Lives of the Chief Justices, Preface to Vol III

Every serious book of non-fiction should have an index if it is to achieve its maximum usefulness. — The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition