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ContextualAnalysis - Back of book and website indexing servicesIndexing Services

About Indexing

A good index provides users with specific information about where topics are discussed in a text, as well as the context of that discussion. A good index helps users find information by providing multiple entry points and cross-references to related topics.

There are currently no software programs that provide useful indexes; a good index takes a human brain looking at and analyzing the text.

Our Indexing Services

ContextualAnalysis offers the following indexing services.

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Back-of-book indexing

ContextualAnalysis has been providing professional indexing services since 1995, specializing in scholarly works in the humanities, as well as trade and textbooks.

  • European history
  • Cookbooks and culinary history
  • East Asian history and culture
  • International relations
  • Music history and theory
  • Comparative religion
  • Literary criticism
  • Biographies
  • Medical management
  • Accounting
  • Business
  • Science
  • Gay/lesbian studies
  • Journal indexing

Indexing clients include:

  • Columbia University Press
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Fordham University Press
  • Oxford University Press
  • Rosenfeld Media
  • American College of Emergency Physicians
  • Harlan Davidson

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Sample Book Indexes Available Online
(Click on the "Index" link in the left-hand navigation pane on the destination page.)

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Book Indexes Compiled (selected list)

Haruo Shirane, ed. Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production, Columbia University Press, 2008

Danny Briere and Pat Hurley. Wireless Home Networking for Dummies, Wiley Publishers, 2008

Indi Young. Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behevior, Rosenfeld Media, 2008

Gawdat Baghat. Israel and the Persian Gulf, University of Florida Press, 2005

Nancy Bagranoff, Stephanie Bryant and James Hunton. Core Concepts of Consulting for Accountants, John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Donald Keene. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912. Columbia University Press, 2002

Alain Corbin. The Life of an Unknown, Columbia University Press, 2001

Roy Medvedev. Post-Soviet Russia, Columbia University Press, 2000

Robert English. Russia and the Idea of the West, Columbia University Press, 2000

Mikhail Gorbachev. On My Country and the World, Columbia University Press, 2000

Peter Mercer-Taylor. The Life of Mendelssohn, Cambridge University Press, 2000

Murray Steib, ed. Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism, Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2000

David Cannadine. Rise and Fall of Class in Britain, Columbia University Press, 1999

Gerald Curtis. The Limits of Change: Post-World War II Japanese Politics, Columbia University Press, 1999

Frederick Hoxie. Indians in American History, Harlan-Davidson, 1998

Michael W. Gelber. The Just and the Lively: The Literary Criticism of John Dryden, 1664–1700, Manchester University Press, 1999

Sally Banes. Subversive Expectations, Rutgers University Press, 1998

Lewis Edinger. From Bonn to Berlin: German Politics in Transition, Columbia University Press, 1998

Michael T. Gilmore. Differences in the Dark: American Movies and English Theater, Columbia University Press, 1998

Eric Selinger. What Is It Then Between Us: Traditions of Love in American Poetry, Cornell University Press, 1998

Louis Althusser. Writings on Psychoanalysis, Columbia University Press, 1997

Pierre Nora. The Realms of Memory, Vols. 1 and 2, Columbia University Press, 1997

Ronald Diebert. Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia, Columbia University Press, 1997

Panthea Reid. Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf, Oxford University Press, 1997

Clarence Taylor. Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle to Integrate New York Public Schools, Columbia University Press, 1997

Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George. Force and Statecraft, 2d ed., Oxford University Press, 1996

Samuel A. Floyd. The Power of Black Music, Oxford University Press, 1995

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Embedded Indexing

If you need an indexer experienced in the field of embedded indexing, we are happy to provide a free consultation about your project. We work in Adobe InDesign to create an index using embedded tags that can be published in a wide variety of formats. Great for book or catalog projects.

Embedded indexing clients include:

  • Black Dot Group
  • Rosenfeld Media

Contact us to learn more about our website indexing services.

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Website indexing

For medium-sized Intranets and websites (several hundred to several thousand pages), a professionally created site index provides users with faster known-item finding, as well as giving them an easily scannable contents listing. Users find what they want faster, improving their user experience and increasing their satisfaction.

Our website index for PeopleSoft.com was awarded the

Australian Society of Indexers Website Index Award 2002–2004.

Contact us to learn more about our website indexing services.

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Indexer Training

Many companies require content authors to index or tag their own documents. Yet most individuals lack basic training in identifying concepts and creating or choosing indexing terms.

ContextualAnalysis offers customized on-site indexing training for individuals or small groups.

To learn more about our indexer training services, please contact us.

If you have any questions or would like to know more, please email me.

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