Resource Downloads

One way - though it's a bit of a cludge - is to search your entire library for something you might find in every resource like "copyright."

If you haven't optimized your index, you'll see a section titled "New Resources" with a yellow (on my system at least) note that says "New resources appear in this section until they are merged into the main index." Followed by a link to do that. Don't for now, because you can browse through the list and see the titles (in grey) of resources that have been updated since you last optimized (AKA 'merged') your indexes. The books don't seem to have any discernible sort order.

As I said, it's a bit of a cludge, but it's something.

EDIT: can someone tell me if this method misses any resources?

Richard DeRuiter said:

As I said, it's a bit of a cludge, but it's something.

EDIT: can someone tell me if this method misses any resources?

You have to initiate a search with the right parameters (Basic Search of Entire Library for ????) to populate this section, therefore you cannot be sure it will reveal all new resources.

Dave Hooton said:

You have to initiate a search with the right parameters (Basic Search of Entire Library for ????) to populate this section, therefore you cannot be sure it will reveal all new resources.

I'm not sure what you're saying David. I suggested searching for the term 'copyright.'

Are you saying a basic search of my entire library for "copyright" will miss any resources? I'm just trying to understand the search logic here, and the resources' structure. I'm assuming that all resources from Logos will have copyright
information on the title page (and maybe somewhere else). I'm also
assuming that nearly all resources will have just one instance of the
wordy copyright in them. That's why I chose to search for this term: it gives the greatest likely hood of reporting all resources, but reporting them only once. The search report then nicely tells me which resources have been added since I last 'merged' my database.

The reason for this cludge is to look at resources that are new (or relatively so). I haven't found another way to do this, but this leans in the right direction. Maybe someone can do better. Maybe there's an embarrassingly simple way to do this that I'm overlooking because it's Friday.

Are you aware of any resources that would slip through the search for 'copyright' unreported? Do you have any other reason for suspecting that this kind of search would miss resources, or would otherwise be unreliable? Help me understand your thinking.