Scripture searching in all resources

You haven't told us how you are doing your 'global search'. It might help if you'd tell us exactly what you are doing and what you are trying to do.

The Search Tool is the best approach. If I search Bible Study Magazine I find references I know are there. The basic syntax is <Bible Jn 3:16> where you supply the Bible reference. I can find scripture references in Edersheim and Christian History Magazine using the same search sytax.

Note, however: Bible Study Magazine and Christian History Magazine are not Journals (they are type:Magazine), so would not be searched in the Journals section of the Passage Guide. You can make a collection of all your magazines and add that to the Passage Guide and then it would be searched.

Let us know a little more and maybe we can be of more help.

I'd suggest watching the tutorials on Searching available on the Logos website. There is also search info in Logos Help available on your Logos installed software, and on wiki.logos.com. You'll be glad to better understand how to directly use the search function.

Since you have a larger library, creating collections and searching just those collections will cut down on hits you are not interested in. The Logos training videos and the wiki will help you understand how to do this. Once you have collections created you can add them (one at a time) to the Passage Guide or other guides as you desire. (There are other ways to search selections of resources using the Library and its sidebar Filter. You, again, can learn about that online.) You can also add a collection to the cited by tool and just have it search what is in the collection.

To know what sort of category Logos puts a resource in, the easiest way is using Library. Use the Details view and be sure Type is listed. (Right click on the header to see what can be listed.) 

You can customize the Passage Guide (and other guides) by clicking on the Add button that appears at the upper right once you run the guide. You can see there are many options in the Passage Guide including adding a collection. If you formed a collection of magazines (very easy to do), you could use the add button to add a collection, then navigate down to that new entry, hover over the word Collections, and you'll see "Settings" appear. Click on the small down arrow next to Settings and you'll see your Magazine collection listed. Select that, and now the Passage Guide will search your magazine collection.

I think you are relying too much on the Passage Guide and you should learn how to directly use the search tool in Logos. It is very powerful.