I was lamenting the other day having to get out of my armchair and go to my local theological library just to look up papers in a whole host of journals .... when it would have been so much more convenient to just search them in Logos. Unfortunately, there a loads that just aren't in Logos yet. A journals, for me, are the best resources in my Logos library.
Some, I suspect, are not in Logos because no-one has thought to see whether there is any interest for them (in either the Logos community or in the publisher's mind)
Others because the publisher is not (yet) interested in publishing in the Logos format.
It is these ... especially publishers like Cambridge University Press and Oxofrd University Press / Clarendon ... that need to be motivated to publish in Logos.
I wonder if one way to do that would be to approach them with a petition ... showing them just what a market there would be for their product?
If that is the case, I wonder if we need new kind of pre-pub ... a pre-pre-pub. One where we indicate interest in a product (an academic journal) that the publisher hasn't even agreed to release to Logos in principle? Then Logos could approach CUP, for example, and say, hey, here is x thousand sales for Journal of New Testament Studies (or whatever), just let us convert them into the right format for you and handle the sales, and send along a nice big no-effort profit.
Then again - perhaps not. Do you have any good ideas about what journals we should get, and how we should get them?
