Indexer & Translator Resources

Resources for Indexers

General Indexing

Knight, G. Norman. Indexing, the Art of: A Guide to the Indexing Books and Periodicals.

— London: Allen & Unwin, 1979. 218 pp.

Mulvany, Nancy C. Indexing Books. — Chicago: University of Chicago Press,

994. 320 pp.

Stauber, Do Mi. Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing — Eugene, Ore.:

Cedar Row Press, 2003. 374 pp.

Wellisch, Hans H. Indexing from A to Z. — 2nd ed., rev. and enl. — New York:

H.W. Wilson, 1995. 569 pp.

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Biography and Fiction Indexing

Bell, Hazel K. Indexing Biographies and Other Stories of Human Lives. — London: Society of

Indexers, 1992. 42 pp.

— Indexers and Indexes in Fact & Fiction. — Toronto: University of Toronto Press,

c2001. 160 pp.

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Technical Indexing

Ament, Kurt. Indexing: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide for Technical Writers. — Norwich, N.Y.: William

Andrew Publishing, c2001. 97 pp.

Other Indexing Specialties

Indexing Specialties: Medicine / edited by Pilar Wyman. — Medford, N.J.:  Information Today in

Association with American Society of Indexers, c1999. 119 pp.

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Style Guides

Chicago Manual of Style. -- 16th ed. -- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.  1026 pp.

 

AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. -- 10th ed. -- Oxford; New York: JAMA &

Archives Journals, American Medical Association; Oxford University Press, c2007. 1010 pp.

The Business of Indexing

Running an Indexing Business / edited by Janet Perlman. — Medford, N.J.:  Information Today

in Association with American Society of Indexers, 2001.  88 pp.

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Resources for Translators

English-Language Resources

Chabner, Davi-Ellen. The Language of Medicine. — 6th ed. — Philadelphia: Saunders,

c2001. 947 pp.

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. — Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, c1991.

1564 pp.

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Spanish-Language Resources

Gran Diccionario Oxford = The Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English, English-Spanish.

— 3rd ed. — Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 1977 pp.

McElroy, Onyria Herrera and Lola L. Grabb. Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary.

— 3rd ed. — Philadelphia; Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005. 769, A16 pp.

Real Academia Española {Royal Spanish Academy]. Diccionario de la Lengua Española

[Dictionary of the Spanish Language]. — 2nd ed. — The Academy, 2001. 2 v.

Medical Spanish Made Incredibly Easy! — 2nd ed. — Philadelpha; Baltimore: Lippincott

Williams & Wilkins, 2004. 345 pp.

Werner, David. Donde no hay doctor [Where there's no doctor]: Una guía para los campesinos

que viven lejos de los centros médicos — Berkeley, Calif.: Hesperian www.hesperian.org, 2007. 455 pp.

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Swedish-Language Resources

Norstedts stora svenska-engelska ordbok = Norsteds Comprehensive Swedish-English

Dictionary. — 2nd ed. — Norstedts Förlag, 1993. 1163 pp.

Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket. — Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag, 1995,

c1986. 674 pp.

Cressy, Clive K.R. Medicinsk och Farmaceutisk Ordbok: Engelsk-Svensk, Svensk-Engelsk

= Medical and Pharmaceutical Dictionary: English-Swedish, Swedish-English. — Oxford: Oxford Physicians and Publishers, 2005. 887 pp.

Medicinens Språk [The Language of Medicine] / under redaktion av Magnus Fogelberg & Göran

Petersson. — 2nd ed. — Stockholm: Liber AB, 2006. 208 pp.

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The Business of Translating

McKay, Corinne. How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator. — Two Rat Press and

Translatewrite, Inc., 22006. 141 pp.

 

Sofer, Morry. The Translator's Handbook. — 6th rev. ed. — Rockville, Md.: Schreiber

Publishing, 2006. 402 pp.

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Resources for Freelancers (General)

Covey, Stephen R.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal

Change. -- New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. 391 pp.

 

Acosta, José María. Uso eficaz del tiempo: Cómo alcanzar el éxito sin estrés [Effective use of

time: how to achieve success without stress]. -- Barcelona: Gestión 2000, 1999. 176 pp.

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