Best Journals

Ron Corbett said:

I was thinking about how much I appreciate having the journals collections in Logos. [And there are some in the pipeline which will be released before too long.] It leads me to two questions.

1] Are there any other journals that you think NEED to be in Logos?

2] Which of the journals that we have already in Logos are most beneficial to you?

This is hard question to answer.  It is hard because it all depends on your theological bent and what you will be using them for.  For an example, I love the The Journal of Biblical Literature (26 vols.), but I do not use it for sermon prep.  I do use it when I am putting a Bible study together.

For me personally, I do not like most of the journals that are available, and this comes from the fact that they have (in my eyes) a very conservative bent to them.  Not that this is wrong or bad, because I enjoy my very conservative dictionaries and commentaries.  I simply do not want to spend my money on conservative journals.

tom collinge said:

This is hard question to answer.  It is hard because it all depends on your theological bent and what you will be using them for. 

I was thinking the same thing but did not know how to put it politely but there is always the 30 day guarantee as well.

Ron, if you would like to email me a rick68 at vqme(.net)-not com I can maybe help you by sending a sample article from the journals. I'll send you back a list of the journals and you can give me a topic and we'll go from there. Just for the record and your peace of mind, I will not continue to send email or forward emails to you after we are finished.

Ron Corbett said:

And thanks Rick, I e-mailed you already with some further background. Maybe that can help

Hi Ron, I replied to your email.

Ron Corbett said:

How do I make a Collection of 6-7 journals? I have been at it w/no success so far.

Use a rule like this:

series:("bibliotheca sacra","journal of biblical literature",themelios,"tyndale bulletin","westminster theological journal")

Here is an idea for thsoe that have some extra time on their hands. There are many good Journals (some are available in logos and some are not) that are available at no cost online. The screen shot below demonstrates an idea you might want to try for yourself.

Basically what I did was copy the Table of contents (which in this particular case includes a brief decsription of the article; applied some simple tagging and created a PB for that journal. In the PB if you click the link it takes you to the web page where that journal article resides.

The advantages:

It is searchable in Logos and the results will likely return an article (if one exists) that specifically relates to the search topic rather than just mentioning the word or phrase. Because you are really just creating a link to a web site, there should not be any worries about copyrights.

It gives you the ability to access journals that Logos does not offer through a PB stored in your library.

The disadvanatges:

Beyond the topic search, you cannot really benefit from the power of L4. If you think you would use the journal for more than reading about a certain topic; and it is one logos offers, you would probably be better off buying that resource.

You do not have the ability to search the text of the article itself

This may be something you want to try...or not[:D]  

Fred Chapman said:

Here is an idea

Fred, any chance you could develop a step-by-step wiki article on how to do this, including a list of journals and their URLs?

Looks like a great idea.

Mark Barnes said:

I'd like to see:

• Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies
• The Bible Translator
• Biblical Theology Bulletin
• Catholic Bible Quarterly
• Evangelical Quarterly
• Expository Times
• Interpretation
• Journal for the Study of the New Testament
• Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
• Journal of Pentecostal Theology
• Journal of Theological Studies
• New Testament Studies
• Novum Testamentum
• Paraclete
• Vetus Testamentum
• Vox Evangelica
• Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

I would add to Mark's list Homiletic & Pastoral Review (who just stopped their paper version and went 100% electronic!), and The Bible Today. Both are excellent scholarly journals with many Bible references in them.

Rosie Perera said:

Since you have them in L3, could you post the URLs of all of those? It would save us all the time of Googling, though it would take you some time copying and pasting.

This list is fairly comprehensive of online journals (though it also includes many journals that aren't online, or aren't free).

http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/index.php?page=PeriodicalsA

Doc B said:

Fred Chapman said:

Here is an idea

Fred, any chance you could develop a step-by-step wiki article on how to do this, including a list of journals and their URLs?

Looks like a great idea.

Done http://wiki.logos.com/Create_a_PB_with_links_to_online_Journals

Fred's idea can be extended to free books as well. Here is one list .

Rosie Perera said:

Do you happen to have an email address to contact the folks at Tyndale about their website?

Their webmaster is David Instone-Brewer. You can email him at tech at tyndale dot cam dot ac dot uk.