Rental Options and Academics
I'm presently a PhD student in Biblical Exposition but my studies involve a lot of biblical studies issues. I see that Logos has thousands of journal volumes available, but I can't afford to purchase much of any of them. I have the Galaxie Journal bundle on rental ($50/year), which is great. Some of the journals I use are in that package. But other journals I need aren't.
What is the possibility of offering other journals/collections for rental as well? I can find a way, for example, to pay $200-300 a year if I can get a huge number of journal articles, and the value of reduced search times and increased capability within Logos would be a BIG win for students (and scholars!) like me. It could even be packaged in with the Academic Logos subscription going forward...thoughts?
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You've expressed a concern others have voiced, but I can imagine that the tagging effort for a constant stream of top tier journals would be costly.
Before you give up, though, I would suggest jstor.org, which is awesome. If integrated with a solid study regimen in Logos, you could get very close to what you're striving for with journals in Logos.
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Logos has many more journals (compared to the Galaxie’s Theological Journal Library), offered in the Master Journal Bundle (currently version 9.3; the newer version 10.1 will be released in April 2025). The number of volumes in the Master Journal Bundle is 2,600+, compared to 1,025+ in the Galaxie’s Library. So, it would be good if the Master Journal Bundle (the journals which already exist in Logos) will also be offered as a subscription, similarly to the Galaxie's subscription.
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This would be exactly what I would like to see.
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If you own the 9.3 bundle, how much do you have to pay to get the 10.1 bundle?
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If you own 9.3 and want to buy 10.1, they will show you a dynamic price when you look up the bundle. Just make sure you’re signed into Logos on the website.
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My open pre-pubs lists shows a price of $27.13. I don't know if that discounts for my recent purchase of the Galaxy Bundle. If it is not included yet, it will be before the final purchase.
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Thank you for the detailed reply. The reason I'm asking is because I want to know which route is cheaper for me. Is it by buying 9.3 first, and then 10.1, or buying straight the 10.1? I know it's probably just few bucks, but hey, if I could save $$ just by few clicks, I don't mind at all.
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Normally buying all at once is cheaper than piecemeal. That said, sometimes the smaller collection is on sale for enough to change the math. For something like this, I would pay for the new bundle if I had the money (or if someone’s wants to give it to me? Wink wink!).
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I picked up the Master Journal Collection on a sale a couple of years ago. I think it was about 40% off or something close to that. Because I had been picking up some titles over the years (i.e. in Galaxie, Library Collections, etc) the dynamic price helped bring the price down further. Now I just buy any updates and they are very affordable.
For my research, journals are a big part of the foundation of my library. I prefer referring to them over monographs, unless I want to really dig down into a topic. I would be very happy for Logos to add more titles if possible, and see some return that we have lost over the years.
OK, maybe I have a condition called journalitus! 😜0
