“…Latin America is not alone in this regard. Writings by Weinberg and Diepeveen on continental European indexing indicate that subject indexes are not as prevalent there as in Anglo-Saxon publishing (Weinberg, 2000;Diepeveen, 2006). Reasons given include pressures of time and money, lack of training courses in indexing, and (particularly for France) that authors are expected to provide their own index but prove ill-suited to the task.…”