Business name
Master Indexing
Suburb
Malvern East
State/Territory
VIC
Country
Australia
Home phone
+61 412 306 381
Work phone
+61 412 306 381
Mobile phone
0412 306 381
Email
max.mcmaster@masterindexing.com
Website
Background
Max has been a freelance indexer for the past 34 years and has indexed in excess of 3000 titles working across a range of subjects with emphasis on the sciences, but covering environment, arts, business, education, travel, cookery and government annual reports as well. Max until 2022 was an instructor for the University of California, Berkeley Extension virtual indexing course, a position he held for 12 years, He has run training courses for ANZSI and other organisations has been awarded the ANZSI Medal for book indexing on three occasions.
Qualifications
BAgrSc, GradDipLib
Specific skills
Botany, zoology, chemistry, pharmacology, linguistics, mathematics, physics, geology, medicine, health, microbiology, biochemistry, geography, environment, biology, palaeontology, entomology, horticulture, gardening, agriculture, veterinary medicine, annual reports, cooking, travel, art, psychology, mining, school history, corporate history
Accredited?
Yes
Broad subject categories
Arts and crafts and design, Business and economics and industry, Humanities, Lifestyle, Medicine and health sciences, Science and technology
Materials and formats
Annual reports, Children’s books, Databases, Directories and guides and encyclopaedias, Journals and magazines and newspapers, Non-fiction books
Publishing categories
Trade, Scholarly and professional, Government, Educational
Software skills
Macrex
Additional services
Abstracting, Consulting, Proofreading, Review of indexes, Training, Technical manuals, Technical and research reports
Recent publications indexed
Australian Medicine in Context. Kingston, ACT: Australian Medical Council, 2026
Biology of Skinks of the Genus Lompropholis (Shelley Burgin and Harold Heatwole). Clayton, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2026
Comfort Cooking: 200 deliciously warming recipes (Jane Price). Collingwood, Vic.: Smith Street Books, 2026
Eat! Mamma Knows Best: an Italian cookbook by Sooshi Mango. Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2025
Endangered Grasslands: rescuing the native temperate grasslands of south-eastern Australia (Kath Raulings). Eurobin, Vic.: Native Seeds, 2025
The Essential Einstein: Public Writings (eds. Diana Kormos Buschwald and Tilman Sauer). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025
The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings (eds. Diana Kormos Buschwald and Tilman Sauer). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025
Explore Australia 2027, 43rd edn. Richmond: Vic: Hardie Grant Explore, 2026
Gardner and Sutherland's Chromosome Abnormalities and Genetic Counseling, 6th edn. (David Amor and R.J. McKinlay Gardner). Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2026
Good Geography NSW Stage 5 (Khya Brooks et al.). Camberwell, Vic: Matilda Education, 2025
Inequalities of Platform Publishing: the promise and peril of self-publishing in the digital book era (Claire Parnell). Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2025
Madness Then and Now: the untold history of Australia's second lunatic asylum and its legacy for modern healthcare (Tony Raeburn and Claire Chang). Liverpool, NSW: Liverpool City Libraries, 2026
The Oldest Rocks on Earth: a search for the origins of our world (Simon Lamb). New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2026
Pearson Economics 11: The Market Economy 2026 (Tim Dixon and John O'Mahony). Melbourne: Pearson Education, 2025
Plant Collecting in Another Planet: E. H. Wilson in Australia 1920-21 (Margaret Grose). Nedlands, WA: UWA Publishing, 2025
Silo Art: Australia's outdoor art revolution. (Alasdair McGregor). 2nd edn. Richmond, Vic.: Australian Geographic, 2026
Biology of Skinks of the Genus Lompropholis (Shelley Burgin and Harold Heatwole). Clayton, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2026
Comfort Cooking: 200 deliciously warming recipes (Jane Price). Collingwood, Vic.: Smith Street Books, 2026
Eat! Mamma Knows Best: an Italian cookbook by Sooshi Mango. Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2025
Endangered Grasslands: rescuing the native temperate grasslands of south-eastern Australia (Kath Raulings). Eurobin, Vic.: Native Seeds, 2025
The Essential Einstein: Public Writings (eds. Diana Kormos Buschwald and Tilman Sauer). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025
The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings (eds. Diana Kormos Buschwald and Tilman Sauer). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025
Explore Australia 2027, 43rd edn. Richmond: Vic: Hardie Grant Explore, 2026
Gardner and Sutherland's Chromosome Abnormalities and Genetic Counseling, 6th edn. (David Amor and R.J. McKinlay Gardner). Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2026
Good Geography NSW Stage 5 (Khya Brooks et al.). Camberwell, Vic: Matilda Education, 2025
Inequalities of Platform Publishing: the promise and peril of self-publishing in the digital book era (Claire Parnell). Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2025
Madness Then and Now: the untold history of Australia's second lunatic asylum and its legacy for modern healthcare (Tony Raeburn and Claire Chang). Liverpool, NSW: Liverpool City Libraries, 2026
The Oldest Rocks on Earth: a search for the origins of our world (Simon Lamb). New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2026
Pearson Economics 11: The Market Economy 2026 (Tim Dixon and John O'Mahony). Melbourne: Pearson Education, 2025
Plant Collecting in Another Planet: E. H. Wilson in Australia 1920-21 (Margaret Grose). Nedlands, WA: UWA Publishing, 2025
Silo Art: Australia's outdoor art revolution. (Alasdair McGregor). 2nd edn. Richmond, Vic.: Australian Geographic, 2026
Year joined
1986
Status
ACTIVE
