Journals in Logos
I recently upgraded to a bigger Logos package and that included some journals. How do they work in Logos, is it useful to drop them in a collection to seek easy in them and do you use them a lot or are it more 'I better hide these' resources?
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Johannes, I keep all my journals in Logos in a single collection. It's pretty easy to make this a dynamic collection since they are all Type:Journal.
Many of us have purchased the Theological Journal Library installments that Logos sells. While they are a bit expensive to get started with, the annual updates are not too bad. These provide a wealth of material for specific searches. As a pastor I wouldn't want to be without them.
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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You mention the theological journal library. I have been looking at that resource and I wondered how much vulomes it contains. Is each journal a single resource in your library. That would give an enormous amount of books which makes it hard to have a clear overview of you library.
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Johannes, I can't speak for the Theological Journals Library as I don't have it - yet! - but I did get some journals with my Logos 5 upgrade to Platinum, and the journals that came in my updated library are listed individually.
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You mention the theological journal library. I have been looking at that resource and I wondered how much vulomes it contains. Is each journal a single resource in your library. That would give an enormous amount of books which makes it hard to have a clear overview of you library.
I own all of the Theological Journal Library releases, save the most recent. I also own Themelios, JBL and some other journals. Most, if not all, of the journals are divided by year (i.e. one volume for each year). Depending upon the frequency of the publication, a volume may contain more than one journal. Each volume of JBL, for example, is subdivided into a number of parts (four in the most recent edition) designated Spring, Fall and Winter.
Collections thus become exceedingly important for filtering resources and conducting targeted and effective searches.
On a personal note, I find the Theological Journal Library (and Themelios, for that matter) to be enormously helpful in respect of personal study, sermon preparation and teaching.
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Andy Evans said:
On a personal note, I find the Theological Journal Library (and Themelios, for that matter) to be enormously helpful in respect of personal study, sermon preparation and teaching.
Could you explain how you find the journals helpful? I am really interested in how you could use them in reality. I would think that journals in general contain articles on very specific and small issues, normally to specific and complex to make thm really usefull for teaching.
Do you read articles related to your teaching topic and use that information?
Do you also find more general information relevant, or is it mainly hoping for an article that discusses your teaching topic?
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Could you explain how you find the journals helpful? I am really interested in how you could use them in reality. I would think that journals in general contain articles on very specific and small issues, normally to specific and complex to make thm really usefull for teaching.
It is precisely these specifics which I find helpful.
In my view, journal articles tend to be more precisely and narrowly focused than, say, a monograph and yet more expansive than an article in, say, a Bible dictionary. I find journal articles helpful in reading around a subject, topic or theme.
Usually, when researching a subject, I will run a search in a collection containing my journals. I will then use the results of this search to build a reading list during which I will take notes, clippings, etc.
Sometimes I will read a specific article which has been referenced elsewhere.
Sometimes I will just browse a journal and read whatever takes my interest at that particular time.
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You mention the theological journal library. I have been looking at that resource and I wondered how much vulomes it contains. Is each journal a single resource in your library. That would give an enormous amount of books which makes it hard to have a clear overview of you library.
As others explained, journals appear in your Logos Library window by volume. If the journal is a quarterly, that means 4 issues show as one resource (one volume). For example the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society Volume 53 appears as one resource, and the Contents pane shows JETS 53.1, JETS 53.2, JETS 53.3, and JETS 53.4 for the 4 issues.
In the Theological Journal Library, only a few of the journals are really valuable, e.g. JETS, R&E, Tyndale. Nevertheless, these are worth the price if you are researching and expected to use journals in your references. I also bought into the Journal of Biblical Literature for this purpose.
In your Library window, you can use the Series heading to identify a set, e.g.:
series:"Journal of Biblical Literature"You will also want to create a collection so you can search your favorite journals, e.g. for exegetical work I use this collection:
series:("Tyndale Bulletin","Review and Expositor","Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society","Journal of Biblical Literature")
and you can search it for a Scripture by placing it in angle brackets, e.g. search for:
<Rev 3:1-20>If you know which volume you want, you can also call it up by typing directly into the Command Box, e.g.:
jbl 125So, don't be afraid to add journals to your library if they would be useful for the kind of study you want to do. They are useful, and easy to search and manage.
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talking about journals (I'm sorry, i keep asking questions), I found this resource on the Logos site: http://www.logos.com/product/8652/religious-and-theological-abstracts
It sounds enormous, if they really have abstracts of articles of all these journals.....
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... I found this resource on the Logos site: http://www.logos.com/product/8652/religious-and-theological-abstracts
It sounds enormous, if they really have abstracts of articles of all these journals.....
That's exactly what it is.
Again, really useful for research.
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talking about journals (I'm sorry, i keep asking questions), I found this resource on the Logos site: http://www.logos.com/product/8652/religious-and-theological-abstracts
It sounds enormous, if they really have abstracts of articles of all these journals.....
I have this and yes, it is huge. Abstracts are just a paragraph long but it covers many years and many articles. Keep in mind that this abstract is a traditional library tool that has been digitized to Logos. It will not abstract every article available in Logos and it abstracts many (most) that are not in Logos.
Here's a screen shot open to a random abstract.
This resource is best used if you access to a theological library or a library that can do inter-library lending/printouts of articles you may be interested in.
Prov. 15:23
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