Master Indexing

Books are packages of knowledge. The index provides the entrée.
Find out more

Master Indexing is a professional freelance indexing business based in Melbourne, Australia.

Master Indexing has extensive experience crafting quality book indexes and has done so for 34 years, having created more than 2,750 indexes in that time.

Whether your indexing requirements are for academic, educational or trade publishers, government organisations, non-profit societies or individual authors, Master Indexing can provide the necessary expertise.

Books, government annual reports and journals can all be accommodated.

Subjects we index include, but are not limited to:

• The sciences
• Health and Medicine
• Environment
• History and Geography
• Business
• Cooking
• Travel
• Sport
• Government annual reports.

Head to our Selected Indexes section for a comprehensive list of subjects we index, as well as a selection of indexes compiled in those disciplines.

Master Indexing provides every effort to ensure that:

• a high standard of work is achieved for all indexing projects
• work is completed in a timely and efficient manner
• prices for work are competitive.

A well-crafted index complements the text to which it belongs.

Most importantly, an index points users to information in the text that they seek.

Within an index, you’ll find broader concepts and narrower topics to cover the varying needs of users.

To enhance usability, multiple access points to topics are given, together with cross-references (See and See also) to aid navigation.

Despite advances in computing, no software package can automatically produce a well-crafted index.

It takes the human element to achieve this, and crafting high-quality indexes is where Master Indexing comes to the fore.