The HSRC was established in 1968 as South Africa’s statutory research agency and has grown to become the largest dedicated research institute in the social sciences and humanities on the African continent, doing cutting-edge public research in areas that are crucial to development.
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HSRC Press, a unit of the Human Sciences Research Council, seeks to appoint freelance indexers who are able to provide high quality indexing for its academic and scholarly publications to its freelance 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.
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