Accurate indexes, delivered on time.

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A book or technical document is a valuable unit of information, and it deserves an index to increase its value. A carefully, professionaly crafted index gives readers easy and organized access to the knowledge contained within.

Whether your need is an index to a book you've just completed or are ready to publish, an index for technical documents, or a master index for a periodical, with over a decade and a half of indexing and other relevant experience, Costello Indexing can help, with an accurate index delivered on deadline.

• Book indexing
• Periodical indexing
• Database indexing
• Abstracting

See also: Sample Indexes.

• back-of-the book indexing
• database indexing for U.S. News & World Report magazine and the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science technical reports collection
• periodical indexing
• indexing the finding aid for an historical archives collection
• indexing technical documentation for library systems and processes

I have degrees in sociology and library science, with other areas of emphasis including Renaissance and Medieval history, social psychology, research methodology, and statistics.

• 20 years of library experience, including:
• 10 years of database design and construction
• 7 years of system administration experience, mostly on Unix systems, including Unix shell scripting and some work with Perl, Javascript and Unix utilities such as sed and awk.

• computers, especially software, manuals, and integrated library systems
• technical documents, including procedures manuals
• library science
• sociology and psychology, especially theory and social psychology
• self-help
• women's health, especially alternative medicine and perimenopause/menopause
• journals and newspapers

See also: Selected List of Works Indexed; Sample Indexes; My Resume

Pricing depends greatly on the type of material to be indexed, how complicated or dense the text is, how much indexing depth is required, and other factors too numerous to be listed. Price quotes are available on request.

To receive an accurate quote, please be prepared to provide two to three chapters from the middle of the text (i.e., after the first chapter or introductory matter), preferably in PDF format, so I can get a better notion of the appropriate per-page price for your index. Per-page charges usually run in the $2.50-$3.50 range.

I'm located in Baltimore, MD.

Feel free to send me an email at lisa@costelloindexing.com to check on my availability and to talk more about your project.