SPECIALIST INDEXING for ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, TECHINCAL and ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

INDEXER

Atholl Robertson, principal of OGC Engineers, is a chartered engineer with more than 45 years’ industrial experience in process, mechanical utilities and electrical engineering.

Atholl has Masters degrees in English and in Electrical Engineering and a B.Eng. level qualification in Mechanical Utilities. He is a long term member of the American Society for Indexing having successfully completed the Training Course Modules. He is also a qualified proofreader and technical editor.

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What is an index?
An index is a route-map guiding the reader to destinations in the text pertinent to the information sought and also indicating alternative byways of related interest leading to further enlightenment
OGC Indexing working definition

OGC Engineers Indexing Services

OGC Engineers provides a specialist indexing service for Engineering and Technical publications, including mechanical, electrical, process and chemical engineering, and scientific and mathematical subjects including physics, chemistry, biological sciences and matters celestial. OGC Engineers also provides indexing for publications over a wide range of other academic and related subjects including English literature, classical music, historical works, education and policy.

Although an author may compile an index, a qualified and experienced indexer is trained to produce a professional index which adequately reflects the content, idiom and nuances of the work in a way that increases its ease of access and value to the reader or researcher. Indexing draws on the same disciplines that engineering does – systematic organisation, clear classification, careful use of language and respect for the reader’s needs that only a human can provide.

What OGC indexes

Anything useful to a reader having a specific question and requiring a quick answer

Textbooks and general interest books
Academic Journals – periodical and cumulative indexes
Doctorate and Masters theses, monographs and edited compilations
Academic publications, dissertations and theses
Technical design criteria, investigation and forensic engineering reports
Descriptive, narrative and operating philosophies
Instruction, operating and maintenance manuals
Tender documentation, record books and close-out reports