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The Indexer Home The journal seeks to cover the full range of subjects, from articles at the cutting edge of new techniques to contributions discussing in a practical way the new tools available to indexers at all points in the technical spectrum or exploring the history of indexing.

The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(4), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about LLM-generated book indexes, indexing E. M. Delafield’s Diary of a Provincial Lady, indexing The Indexer, and more!

The Indexer Home The journal seeks to cover the full range of subjects, from articles at the cutting edge of new techniques to contributions discussing in a practical way the new tools available to indexers at all points in the technical spectrum or exploring the history of indexing.

The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(3), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about Chinese language indexing, natural-language processing and indexing, the ASI 2025 conference and National Indexing Day 2025, and more!

The Indexer Home The journal seeks to cover the full range of subjects, from articles at the cutting edge of new techniques to contributions discussing in a practical way the new tools available to indexers at all points in the technical spectrum or exploring the history of indexing.

The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(2), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about periodical indexing, using diacritics, trends in embedded indexing, and more!

Today is #IndexDay! Do you have a favorite Indexer article, current or older? We would love to hear which articles come up today!

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The latest issue of The Indexer, 43(1), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about book indexing in Japan, qualitative research and indexing, embedded indexing, and more.

The first printed 2024 edition of the journal has been spotted! Thanks for posting, Paula!

@indexer.bsky.social 42.4 features articles on AI in indexing, Index-Manager and alphabetisation, indexing with Excel, and conference reports from the year: bit.ly/INDEX42-4 @tanyaizzard.bsky.social‬ @indexers.bsky.social‬ @djbduncan.bsky.social @nicolaking.bsky.social

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The latest issue of The Indexer, 42(4), is now available at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about generative AI and indexing, the newest additions to the dictionary of basic indexing terminology, Cindex, the ISC/SCI and ASI conferences, and more.

Happy #IndexingDay to all our American colleagues at the American Society for Indexing!

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The latest issue of The Indexer, 42(3), has been published online at www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/index. Read about the Dictionary of Basic Indexing’s Welsh and Japanese entries; indexing Classic Mayan; Picardy book-indexing software; training in creating ebook indexes, and more!

It's National Indexing Day #IndexDay - looking forward to seeing posts about indexes, indexers and all things indexing. For starters there's free stuff from @indexer.bsky.social from @livunipress.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2024/03/19/c...

Celebrating National Indexing Day 2024 National Indexing Day The Society of Indexers is celebrating National Indexing Day for the eighth successive year on Thursday 28th March 2024. National Indexing Day was established in March 2017 to co...

My article on comparing my English index with the translated German and Italian indexes of @djbduncan.bsky.social’s ‘INDEX, A History of the’ is part of @livunipress.bsky.social’s free selection from The Indexer journal @indexer.bsky.social for National Indexing Day on 28 March. Roll on #IndexDay! 🥳

We would like to publish more reviews on books that are not English, and we encourage reviewers to write the reviews in their own language. Are you interested in writing for us in any language other than English, or do you know someone? Please let me know and I will add you to my list!

"Book reviews need to be recognized as important work because they epitomize the culture of criticism and guide historians through contributions and challenges to prevailing orthodoxies." Couldn't agree more! We're always looking for book reviewers; reach out if you're interested.

The latest issue of The Indexer on a blue foiled background showing issue 41.4 with the LUP logo in white on the top left.

The Indexer @indexer.bsky.social 41.4 features @closereadingie.bsky.social on the Christian and book context of the canon tables created by Eusebius of Caesarea & @exterindexing.bsky.social's review of Stephen Nullstrom's latest book. Browse the full issue online: bit.ly/INDEX41-4

The latest issue of The Indexer has been published! You can read issue 41.4 on the Liverpool University Press website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/index/41/4

The Necessity of Book Reviews - The Scholarly Kitchen Is the scholar-to-scholar exchange found in book reviews still of value to the community? There is concern over their decline.

A very interesting piece on the value of book reviews. If you're interested in writing for us, please reach out at reviews[at]theindexer[dot]org.