Indexer - Cape Town Durban and Pretoria at HSRC

• The Publishing unit of the Human Sciences Research Council requires freelance indexers to provide high quality indexing for its scholarly publications and to be on their database. In addition to the responsibilities and requirements set out below, there may be a project-specific brief.

Minimum Requirements    

• Proven experience in indexing a minimum of FIVE academic/scholarly books in the fields of the social sciences and humanities.
• In your CV, include a comprehensive list of relevant books/journals that you have indexed along with the publisher details.
• A tertiary qualification in any of the following: humanities, social sciences, economics, hard sciences or information sciences.
• Attach examples of three indexes that you’ve completed as PDFs.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Using the PDF of the manuscript as supplied, the indexer must compile a single or double index as relevant, with one level of subentry, in MSWord format. Other details will be specified in the brief.