Professional indexing that connects readers with content
A great index does more than list words and page numbers. It anticipates what readers are looking for and provides a clear, intuitive pathway through the content. As the cornerstone of Puddingburn’s expertise, we create accurate, comprehensive and user-friendly indexes that make publications easier to navigate and more valuable to their readers.
Our indexers have worked across an exceptionally broad range of subject areas and publications, including:
legal and academic textbooks
scholarly and reference works
looseleaf services
nursing and professional textbooks
legal encyclopaedias
biographies and non-fiction
lifestyle titles
cookbooks
Experience, judgement and attention to detail
Professional indexing requires much more than identifying key terms. It involves understanding the content, recognising relationships between concepts and anticipating the different ways a reader may search for information.
Our experienced indexers act as the link between the text and its ultimate user, creating a logical and accessible structure that helps readers find the information they need quickly and easily.
We have also developed our own in-house indexing software, which supports our rigorous processes and helps us deliver indexes of exceptional accuracy and consistency.
Reliable delivery within your production schedule
Indexing is one of the final (and often most time-sensitive) stages of the publishing process. We understand the pressures of production schedules and can work efficiently within tight turnaround times without compromising quality.
Because we work so closely with the text at the final stage before publication, our indexers also frequently identify typographical, factual and consistency issues that may otherwise have been missed. We flag these for correction before publication, providing an additional layer of quality control at a crucial point in the production process.