The Indexer vol 31 No 1 March 2013

Articles include:

• TIIARA for an IDOL: an adventure in indexing (Elaine Ménard);
• Scholarly publications in Latin America: where, oh index, art thou? (Ruby Meraz Gutierrez);
• Creation, placement, and design of website indexes on university websites in the United States (Ilana Kingsley);
• Ebook navigation: browse, search and index (Glenda Browne and Mary Coe);
• Windows 8: what’s better, what’s worse (Kamm Schreiner);
• The ANSZI Medal 2012: some thoughts on what makes a prize-winning index (The ANZSI Medal Committee);
• A publisher’s job is to provide a good API for books: you can start with your index (Hugh McGuire);
• Letter: a response to Bill Johncocks;
• Obituary: Doreen Blake;
• Indexes reviewed (Christine Shuttleworth);
• Book reviews (Christopher Phipps and Michael E. Jackson)

The Indexer vol 30 No 4 December 2012

Articles include:

• The EJIW index: were new publishing technologies a burden or a bonus? (Caroline Diepeveen);
• Section and paragraph number indexing (Glenda Browne);
• An index of counter-spells in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1516) (Michael Robertson);
• Cataloging rules and tools: an aid for the indexing of names (Debra Spidal);
• Measuring value: worth your pay and paid your worth (Sylvia Coates);
• The microeconomics of indexing (Michael E. Jackson);
• ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997–2012 (Catherine Sassen);
• Around the world & Around the digital world (Sanet le Roux);
• Indexes reviewed (Christine Shuttleworth);
• Book reviews (Christopher Phipps and Michael E. Jackson)

The Indexer vol 30 No 3 September 2012

Articles include:

• An indexer's life of Johnson (Chistopher Phipps)
• Navigating 'The English friend' (Susan Curran)
• Indexing political memoirs: neutrality and partiality (Alan Walker)
• Dramatis personae (Madeleine Davis)
• Biography indexes reviewed (Catherine Sassen)
• Biographies as soft, narrative texts (Hazel. K. Bell)
• A bibliography for indexing lives (Hazel K. Bell)
• A short history of matters international (Jill Halliday)
• International Agreement of Indexing Societies
• Around the world (Sanet Le Roux)
• Around the digital world (Sanet Le Roux)
• IDPF, EPUB and ebook indexes (Glenda Browne)
• Indexes Reviewed (Ed. Christine Shuttleworth)
• Book reviews (Ed. Christopher Phipps and Michael E. Jackson) 

The Indexer vol 30 No 2 June 2012

G’day and welcome to the Antipodean edition of The Indexer. This edition reflects the diversity of activities within ANZSI.

Articles include:

• 'A view from the Antipodes' (Mary Russell and Max McMaster);
• 'Political memoirs: an international comparison of indexing styles' (Alan Walker);
• 'Māori names in indexes' (Robin Briggs);
• 'Material culture and the rise of quilt indexing' (Nikki Davis);
• 'Indexing quilt patterns' (Mary Russell);
• 'Indexing wine' (Michael Ramsden);
• 'The Revised New Zealand Mentoring Scheme' (Tordis Flath);
• 'Same publication + many indexers = ???' (Max McMaster);
• 'Preparing the indexing quote' (Max McMaster);
• 'Around the world' (Sanet le Roux);
• 'Around the digital world' (Sanet le Roux);
• 'Indexes reviewed' (Christine Shuttleworth);
• 'Reviews' Edited by Christopher Phipps and Michael E. Jackson). 

The Indexer vol 30 No 1 March 2012- Indexing in the Digital Age

The March issue of The Indexer is an extended issue, dedicated to consideration of issues relevant to indexing in the digital age.

Articles include:

• 'digital trends' Jan Wright (ASI);
• 'The tyranny of the page' Mary Coe (ANZSI);
• 'New technology and public perceptions' Bill Johncocks (SI);
• 'The devil is in the details: indexes versus Amazon’s X-Ray' Jan Wright (ASI);
• 'Hand-helds as ereaders: exploratory thoughts on hand-held devices and indexes' Pilar Wyman (ASI);
• 'Visualizing back-of-book indexes' Ceilyn Boyd and Mitch Wade (ASI);
• 'The semantic web: an introduction for information professionals' Matt Moore (Australia);
• 'Publishing, XML and indexers' Nic Gibson (UK);
• 'XML indexing' Michele Combs (US);
• 'Web resources for indexers' Pierke Bosschieter (NIN).
• The reviews section includes a review of Peter Meyer’s ‘Breaking the page’ in which he argues the importance of including indexes in electronic publications. 

The Indexer vol 27 No 3 September 2009 - Indexing in China

This September 2009 edition of The Indexer is guest-edited by the China Society of Indexers. It traces the history of indexing in China and reflects on how it stands today.

Articles include:

• 'Term selection: the key to successful indexing' Zhang Qiyu;
• 'GB/T 22466-2008 – Guidelines for indexing: China’s new national indexing standard' Wen Guoqiang and Guo Lifang;
• 'Wan Guoding (1897–1963), indexing pioneer' Wang Yage and Hou Hanqing;
• 'A Chinese typewriter: part of a patent filed by Lin Yutang';
• 'Republic of China (1911–49): retrieving the past' Wu Peijuan;
• 'Example-based text categorization (EBTC); the key to automatic indexing and classification?' Xue Chunxiang and Hou Hanqing;
• 'Indexing software in China: past, present and future' Wang Yanxiang;
• 'Around the world' Edited by Glenda Browne; 'A ha’p’orth of tar' John Sutherland;
• 'Linux and the indexer – a note' Jonathan Jermey