Authoritative works
Facing the Text by Do Mi Stauber, 2004
Handbook of Indexing Techniques by Linda K. Fetters, 2013
Indexing Books by Nancy C. Mulvany, 2005
Indexing from A to Z by Hans Wellisch, 1996
Copyright
Copyright Basics, University of California
Copyright and Fair Use, Standford University
Copyright and Moral Rights, Society for Indexers (UK)
U.S. Copyright Law, U.S. Copyright Office, 2011
Embedded and ebook indexing
about
Context matters: Search can’t replace a high-quality index: Kevin Broccoli on the importance of indexes in ebooks by Joe Wikert, 2012
Digital Trends Task Force, American Society for Indexing
Embedded Indexes: A Trend in Indexing by Sue Klefstad, 2015
Embedded Indexing by James Lamb, 2005
EPUB 3.0.1 Standard, International Digital Publishing Forum, 2015
EPUB Standard and Ebook Indexes by Glenda Browne, 2014
How to Make an Ebook Index: Five Tips by Nancy K. Humphreys, 2012
Index for The Indexer. See embedded indexing; XML indexing
Indexes in eBooks, Executive Summary by Dave Ream, 2014
List of articles by Lucie Haskins
The Matrix: Creating an Active Index in all kinds of formats, from all kinds of tools by Jan Wright, Glenda Browne, Michele Combs, David Ream and Pilar Wyman, 2013
Single Source Indexing by Jan Wright, 2001
XML indexing by Publishing Technology Group of Society of Indexers
software
Adobe
Which is better: FrameMaker or InDesign? by David Blatner, 2013
extensions
How Do DEXembed and WordEmbed Work? by Lucie Haskins, 2012
IXgen by Frank Stearns Associates (for Adobe FrameMaker)
Kerntiff Publishing Systems Index Utilities (for Adobe InDesign)
WordEmbed by James Lamb (for MS Word)
Ethics and Professionalism
A Code of Ethics, Harold Borko and Charles Bernier, 1978
Code of Professional Conduct, Society for Indexers, 2014
Ethical places, Ethical Spaces: Stopping to Listen by Christine Jacobs, 2007
Professionalism and the Indexer by Jill Halliday, 2015
Guidelines
ANSI/NISO Z39-19-2005 : Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies
Best Practices for Indexing by American Society for Indexing, 2015
Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition
Indexing Best Practices by Institute of Certified Indexers
ISO 999:1996 : Guidelines from Content, Organization, and Presentation of Indexes
NISO-TR02-1997 : Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices (Anderson)
NISO TR03-1999 : Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and Sorting of Numerals and Other Symbols(Wellisch)
Heading authorities
HURIDOCS – How to Record Names of Persons, 2001
Indexing Names, ed. by Noeline Bridge, 2012
Library of Congress Authorities
Virtual International Authority File
WorldCat, OCLC
History
“Index: The Word, Its History and Meanings” in Indexing from A to Z, Second Edition by Hans Wellisch, page 200-210
Indexes, Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Oldest Printed Indexes by Hans Wellisch, 1986
How to
“From A to Zafran” articles, Enid Zafran, Indexing Partners
Index for Key Words, American Society for Indexing
Index Editing/Review
Index Editing Checklist, Chicago Manual of Style 16.133
Index Evaluation Checklist, American Society for Indexing
Ten Tips for Spotting a Bad Index, Nancy K. Humphreys, Wordmaps Indexing
Organizations
American Society for Indexing (ASI)
Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers (ASAIB)
Australia and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI, formerly AusSI)
Deutsches Netzwerk der Indexer (DNI) / German Network of Indexers
Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC / SCI)
Institute of Certified Indexers (ICI)
Nederlands Indexers Netwerk (NIN) / Netherlands Indexing Network
Poetic essays
The Indexer by Tyler Gobble, 2012
Indexes, in Praise of by Sasha Archibald, 2013
The Secret Lives of Indexers by Judith Pascoe, 2014
Professional journals
Key Words, American Society of Indexing
The Indexer, Society of Indexers
Publishing conferences and educational events
Digital Trends Task Force – American Society for Indexing
International Digital Publishing Forum and IDPF Digital Book
PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference
Society for Technical Communication Summit
Specialities
Art
Getty Vocabularies (includes Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist Names, et al)
Geography
U.S Board of Geographic Names, USGS
Health
Medical Subject Headings, U.S. National Library of Medicine
Music
African American Music Reference
Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Notes on Style
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Science
Scientific Style and Format Online, Council of Science Editors
See also Index It Right! series and Indexing Specialities series, Information Today, Inc.
Starting an indexing business
The Accidental Indexer by Nan Badgett, 2015
Business of Indexing module by Kate Mertes and Enid Zafran, 2014
A Guide for the Freelance Indexer by April Michelle Davis, 2012
Portrait of an Indexer: The First Year by Kendra Millis, 2010
Publisher Survey on Indexing compiled by Madge Walls, 2013
Super indexing (aka index mashups)
Index of Milan Jacovich detective series by Les Roberts, Index by Mary Ann Chulick
Index Mashup of Seth Godin titles, BIM Indexing & Proofreading Services
“Indexing Across Titles” by Mark Fretz, 2014
Publications Mashup, American Society for Indexing
Training
American Society for Indexing, Indexing Training Course
Simmons College, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Periodical and Database Indexing and Taxonomy courses
Simon Fraser University, Indexing continuing studies course
UC Berkeley Extension, Indexing Theory and Embedded Indexing courses
Website indexing
Best Practices for Style and Formatting of A-Z Browsable Site Indexes, Web & Electronic Special Interest Group, American Society for Indexing
Courses by Hedden Information Management
Examples, DPI/ASI
Indexing and Keyword Tagging of Websites and Intranets by Kevin Broccoli
Indexing the Web, American Society for Indexing
Using Online Indexes Study, Bureau of National Affairs, 2008
Digital Publications Indexing Group, American Society for Indexing
Website indexing: Enhancing Access to Information within Websites by Glenda Browne and Jonathan Jermey, 2004
See also Indexing FAQs