Merrall-Ross International Ltd
First Floor, Unit 5410
North Wales Business Park
Abergele
LL22 8LJ
Indexing qualifications and membership of professional bodies
Fellow of the Society of Indexers (registered in 1985)
Full Member of Society for Editors and Proofreaders
Other academic and professional qualifications
IDT/2/2 Work group for XML (Information Documentation Terminology) of BSI
EU NoE in Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine (Semantic Mining) (www.semanticmining.org)
B.Sc – Microbiology and Botany
B.Sc Hons – Microbiology (Microbial genetics)
M.Sc - Immunology
Subject specialisms
Medicine (all specialties)
Biological Sciences
Immunology
Genetics and Biotechnology
Food Sciences
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Psychology and Psychotherapy
Non-Scientific fields: Business, IT, Media studies, Government information
Media specialisms
Books (of all types)
CD-ROMs/DVDs
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Yearbooks and directories
Journals
Manuals and handbooks
On-line materials
Webpages and Websites
Language(s)
English
Professional indexer since
1978
Examples of publications indexed
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Elsevier, 2008)
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority – Code of Practice 2009
Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology – Zuckerman (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
Principles and Practice of Geriatric Psychiatry (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Oxford Textbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes (OUP, 2011)
Equipment and software
PCs, Laser printers – all types of standard office equipment
Cindex, MS Office Professional (Access, Excel, Powerpoint etc)
XRefHT32 (Web indexing software), WordEmbed
Any other information
Indexing
Full-time professional indexing (over 30 years) of medical and food science textbooks, encyclopaedias and journals. All types of undergraduate and postgraduate titles of any length (from 50 to 14000-plus pages) indexed. Extensive experience in indexing high-level, multivolume texts, and electronic titles or one-off special projects. Simultaneous indexing of books and CD-ROM/internet titles undertaken. Experienced in website indexing i.e. preparation of A-Z indexes for websites, intranets and individual webpages.
Awards
Wheatley Medal winner (1993, 1997 and 2010); shortlisted 1999, 2000, 2003 (2003 – both awards) and 2009. Participation with my company in Wheatley Medal winner 2003. No other indexer has won the Wheatley Medal so many times.
EU Consortium
Full partner, and only UK commercial partner, of EU Network of Excellence on Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine (NoE 507505).
Additional Services
Ontology Development
Website indexing, and metadata preparation
Thesaurus or synonym list development.
ICD9 and SNOMED-CT coding of medical texts
Consultancy service for electronic indexing.
Janine Ross is MD of Merrall-Ross International Ltd.
Date last updated: 28 Jul 2011
