Nigel d'Auvergne
Freelance Indexer
(publications)

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Index (Latin): Pointer, Indicator

Index: Systematic arrangement of keywords and locators,
enabling users to identify and locate information quickly and efficiently.

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‘If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.’
Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Consumer's Guide, 1897

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By adding value to a publication, and thereby increasing sales,
a good index will pay for itself many times over.

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Professional member of the UK Society of Indexers.

Will accept indexing projects of all subjects, sizes and formats.

My experience includes embedded indexing,
within Microsoft Word documents (using WordEmbed software),
and directly into XML documents.

Large, complex and unusual projects are welcome.

Rush jobs are welcome.

Full-time indexer, available all year.

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4science Brookes Forty CAPDM CILIP Facet Glyph International Gray Hart McLeod McGraw-Hill Macmillan Nelson Thornes Out of House Pharmaceutical Press Pickering & Chatto Radcliffe Sparks Wiley-Blackwell World Health Organization

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Scientific • Technical • Medical • Commercial

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A fee for each project is normally agreed in advance.

Working directly from PDFs (please don’t send paper!) and using SKY Index™ Professional software,
indexes are produced in the file format of your choice,
e.g. Microsoft Word (.rtf); OpenOffice.org Writer (.odt); HTML; XML.

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To enhance the saleability (is that a word? . . . it is now!) of publications,
by providing indexes of the highest quality.

To beat the publishers' deadlines.

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Please contact me if you would like more information, or to discuss a project:

Nigel d'Auvergne • Freelance Indexer

N D Consulting Ltd.
Steyning • UK
É +44(0)1903 813284
Ë +44(0)7743 611935
š nigel@nigeldauvergne.co.uk

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‘The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book.’
John Donne (1572-1631)

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Below are links to some language-related, randomly-selected, and interesting (to me!) resources:

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Online graphical dictionary


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Francophile and would like to improve your French-language skills while on holiday?

For more information, please contact either myself, or ELFCA direct.

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