Logos 4 is a wonderful piece of software that is unfortunately missing one or two important features, including a bibliographic report. However, help is at hand! This site will generate a bibliographic report for you. There are several simple steps:
- Register as a user on this website, then log-in.
- Upload your library catalogue. This is a special file generated by Logos 4 which contains a database of your library. Each book adds around 10kb to this file, so if you have 1,000 resources the file will be around 10Mb. A 10Mb file could take around 7 minutes to upload, depending on your connection speed.
- Choose your options, then generate the report. You can sort by author or title. Five styles are available:
- Table: A table with the columns: cover image, title, authors, publisher, year. Various size options are available for the cover image.
- Shelves:Displays your books on library shelves.
- Popularity Report:Displays not just your books, but almost all of the other Logos books that are available, showing which are the most popular.
- Titles only: A simple list of just the titles.
- APA: Similar to the bibliographic presentation required by the APA.
- BibTex: A bibliographic database format, which you may be able to import into other applications like Zotero.
- Save or print the report from your web-browser.
Limitations: Because this is a hack, and not something officially supported, you cannot access all the data you may want. Missing are ISBNs, volume numbers, and the publisher's location.


#1 by eboselli on 17 August, 2011 - 11:08 pm
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Hi Mark!
I’ve uploaded my library. The description after it says that I have uploaded my library (i.e., before I generate a report) says that I have 2001 resources. However, when I try to generate a report, I receive the following message:
Error:
HY000
11
database disk image is malformed
Any ideas?
May thanks!
Emile
#2 by Earthwind on 20 August, 2011 - 4:16 pm
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I wanted to spend a mniute to thank you for this.
#3 by Lynsey on 30 September, 2011 - 1:16 am
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Thanks for sharing. What a pealsure to read!
#4 by jkbxeuj on 3 October, 2011 - 11:47 am
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#5 by Pastorc323 on 2 September, 2011 - 12:05 am
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Having a problem getting the program to work. After I double-click the catalog.db file, nothing happens. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Claybon
#6 by David on 4 September, 2011 - 11:40 pm
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Thank you very much, sir. I found this very helpful in just finding new books in my library.
#7 by Cassara on 2 October, 2011 - 1:17 am
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Gee willikres, that’s such a great post!
#8 by Cassara on 2 October, 2011 - 1:17 am
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#9 by jchappell on 12 December, 2011 - 3:24 pm
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ok, so I found the instructions but am not very computer savvy. Can someone please give me step by step for mac os. I am new to mac environment, so please be patient.
#10 by paladin on 11 January, 2012 - 3:12 pm
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I have no .db file… I have a (.db-journal) file but it did not work.