After waiting patiently after the Master Journal Bundle 2.1+ came out - not a lot has happened.
Where was the frequent release programme we were expecting.
Shalom
I was told to go here and post my previous requests for journals. I don't know if this means it will get a better hearing or not. Worth a try. You might want to post yours or go vote here for others' requests.
https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-book-requests
How many places does FL have for ways to suggest and vote? I didn't know about this one.
Feedback soft launch on 23 Oct 2020 => New Faithlife Feedback Boards (supercedes UserVoice, which is an historical archive for now)
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This forum posting's title is becoming less accurate - as there are now regular releases of new editions.
But it is still relevant to expand the Journal title base.
Nevertheless thank you for what you are doing and the continued ability the subscribe/purchase.
Each time I keep seeing this I think the same thing.
Perhaps a new thread would be more appropriate.
Yes, thankful for the new journals that downloaded today.
Do we know when 5.5 will be offered?
6.1 is already on PrePub.
https://www.logos.com/product/204210/master-journal-bundle-61
Thanks
6.1 is already on PrePub. https://www.logos.com/product/204210/master-journal-bundle-61
Thanks. I had not seen that yet.
Well, technically, the title of this thread matches the respective titles of Academic 5.4 and 6.1 ... they have the same number of journals (595).
Either (a) they removed something(s) ... (hate to figure that out), or (b) forgot to change the title. Maybe a late 2020 last gasp.
Thanks. I had not seen that yet. Well, technically, the title of this thread matches the respective titles of Academic 5.4 and 6.1 ... they have the same number of journals (595). Either (a) they removed something(s) ... (hate to figure that out), or (b) forgot to change the title. Maybe a late 2020 last gasp.
According to the 6.1 product page, there are three new journal volumes, of which two come from a new journal.
Why the Journal of Moral Theology makes it into the Master bundle but not the Academic bundle I do not understand.
It seems the Masters Journal includes everything in the academic journal bundle. But if I remember correctly, the Masters Journals does not include everything. Is there another package that we should know about in order to have everything?
Along with the Master Journal Collection 6.1, which should contain everything in Logos’ previous journal collections, there’s also:
Galaxie’s Theological Journal Library, vols. 1–23
Scholar's Journal Collection (2,857 vols.) (buyer beware – padded with many magazines)
The other package Logos offers is the Galaxie Theological Journal bundle - https://www.logos.com/product/197999/galaxies-theological-journal-library-vols-1-23
Scholar's Journal Collection (2,857 vols.)
I was posting at the same time as you but you were correct to also include the above.
This product page is strange in that 2,828 of the resources it contains are listed under Journals and Magazines" and 29 are under "Other"... all 29 of those are journals or magazines.
he other package Logos offers is the Galaxie Theological Journal bundle - https://www.logos.com/product/197999/galaxies-theological-journal-library-vols-1-23
Note that the Galaxies bundle page's list of journals also found in the Master bundle is presently out of date.
Scholar's Journal Collection (2,857 vols.) (buyer beware – padded with many magazines) This product page is strange in that 2,828 of the resources it contains are listed under Journals and Magazines" and 29 are under "Other"... all 29 of those are journals or magazines.
I agree. I saw that I was missing one here and purchased it only to find out that its type is a monograph (neither a journal or a magazine) - the resource is called "Church and Academy". I was disappointed but I should have looked closer.
The Scholar’s Journal Bundle would only add Christianity Today Vol 10-35, plus one volume (5) of Kuyper Center Review, to my library for $153.89.
Probably not worth it.
Yes I see the same thing, @Nathan Parker!
Apparently if you want new journals one has to add them to the new feedback channel:
I posted a few but no one is voting. I found some FREE ones online and I contacted them and they are simply waiting for FL to contact them and it can be easily done. If you go an vote, maybe FL would do it? It would only cost the labor to produce them in Logos.
Maybe I need to see if Galaxie would add them and then we could get them in FL?
https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/faith-and-philosophy-journal
https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/more-free-journals-from-first-fruits
https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/perichoresis-journal
https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/transformation-an-international-journal-of-holistic-mission-studies
https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/journal-of-analytic-theology
https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/what-ever-happened-to-ex-auditu
Why is Ex Auditu no longer available?
Any chance of getting it online electronically otherwise?
I posted a few but no one is voting.
I had not seen these yet but now I have voted. I think it was good to post here to encourage others to vote as well.
Do we have any idea when the 6.1 collections will release?
Woohoo! Finally!
Why is this not in any of the Bundles?
https://www.logos.com/product/205115/journal-for-the-study-of-paul-and-his-letters
Woohoo! Finally! Why is this not in any of the Bundles? https://www.logos.com/product/205115/journal-for-the-study-of-paul-and-his-letters
Is the price too steep? I thought more would jump on this or has everyone already gotten access to it otherwise?
My answer to this is "yes". Perhaps if it was bundled with other journals that would lower the cost.
Is the price too steep? I thought more would jump on this or has everyone already gotten access to it otherwise? My answer to this is "yes". Perhaps if it was bundled with other journals that would lower the cost.
I think what I have understood is they will introduce new journals in this manner to get them published to cover the upfront cots involved. Then after so many years they will eventually get bundled in the packages which come at quite the discount. This balances out peopel being able to afford the bundles while FL being able to add new content. First, they will see the interest and get the required work done on them via the individual sellings and eventually after time has passed roll them into the bundles as their upfront costs in producing them are quite high. I may not have worded this correctly. Someone else might be better equipped to shed light on this. This is the gist I got.
I think what I have understood is they will introduce new journals in this manner to get them published to cover the upfront cots involved. Then after so many years they will eventually get bundled in the packages which come at quite the discount
How did you get this gist?
I think what I have understood is they will introduce new journals in this manner to get them published to cover the upfront cots involved. Then after so many years they will eventually get bundled in the packages which come at quite the discount How did you get this gist?
Why is this not a part of any bundle? Master's 6.1?
Some journals can't be bundled.
Others need to be funded individually before we include them in bundles.
We don't collect enough revenue on new journals in the big bundles to make releasing them that way sustainable.
Our latest decision is that new journals will generally be released standalone and then after a period of a year or two added to the appropriate bundles.
Our latest decision
Interesting
Yet another FREE online journal waiting to be incorporated:
https://en.exegetiskasallskapet.se/sea
One can vote here:
https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/yet-another-free-online-journal-sea
I take it this thread is dead and the bundles shrink each quarter. Has FL decided these mechanisms just are no longer feasible and hope to move on to something else? I guess one can hope that Galaxie expands its subscription base to add the journals and, via the annual update, one can get access?
Journals may be free but FL still incurs costs in tagging them and making them available. To formally request that a journal be carried by Faithlife, you need to add it to feedback.faithlife.com and encourage enough people to vote for it to show that it would not e a loss leader.
Understood. If you look I have posted them in Feedbear and above in this thread as well to that extent. My point was, based on the history of this thread, I thought FL had handled it well by offering quarterly updates finally. However, the past few quarterlies have dwindled in size (when compared to past offerings) which leads me at least to think that they are scaling back the number of volumes they are choosing to go forward with and have decided to release journals in individual packages; thus, the Master Journal Bundle, now offered each quarter does not at this point include newer titles like the Journal for the Study of the Letters of Paul while at the same time being significantly smaller than what was offered in past quarterlies. In addition, older offerings I had requested in this thread apparently also have not garnered enough interest either. This leads me to believe the posts herein that said that FL is still experimenting with journals and has no concrete plans seem to have hit the mark. Therefore, as others in this thread have suggested based on the history of FL and journals it is best for one serious about them to find other means of accessing them. For those of us who do not have those ways, we can either hope FL again chooses to focus on journals which apparently is not feasible at the present time, or we hope Galaxie improves their services and offerings and that the subscription for Galaxie in Logos would as a result of Galaxie improving its own catalogs assist us in getting better journal access. Have I gotten it correct?
I prefer not to speculate on the why's of Faithlife's action -- too little actual information. We know nothing about the contracts, the length of the contracts, when the journals make the electronic text available to Faithlife, the block of resources taken up in the Wordsearch acquisition, the effects of the changes in management in the scheduling . . . etc.
Agreed. Perhaps this thread was dead for being full of speculation while FL was unable to provide us with much facts in an ever changing world, and we must trust that they are simply doing their best and we should not expect anything beyond that. Forgive my impudence. Hopefully, the quarterlies will continue no matter how small they have shrunk. I do need to practice more gratefulness even in the smallest of blessings.
It is useful to Faithlife to keep reminding them of your need for journals, especially particular journals.
What happened to the annual Galaxie Journal updates?
I would also like to know the answer to this.
What happened to the annual Galaxie Journal updates? I would also like to know the answer to this.
Agreed
See https://community.logos.com/forums/p/202926/1240109.aspx#1240100
Pre-order Galaxie’s Theological Journal Library, vols. 1–25.
HI Phil,
How will dynamic pricing work. The Galaxie Journal collection has some items also included in the Master Journal Bundle 7.4 https://www.logos.com/product/232529/master-journal-bundle-74
They both ship the same day, so I hope that the one with the better dynamic pricing discount ships first.
I asked myself the same question.
