E-Resources

The JKM Library maintains a growing selection of electronic resources to support your research activities, all accessible with your OpenAthens login.

All of our ebooks, and many of the handbooks and encyclopedias, are also available in Primo, our online catalog. When you search, they will show up as "Available Online" and you can follow the catalog links to "View Online," which should take you to the specific book you want. You can also search specific ebook collections below.

All EBSCO resources have been redesigned. You can watch our 10-minute video tutorial on the changes. The links have also changed, so update your bookmarks! And once in EBSCO, you can choose additional databases—even all of them—and search them together. Click on "Searching:" and pick your databases.

We have a guide to using the databases to find journal articles—and especially to finding what you want in full text!

And scroll to the bottom for all sorts of new supplementary resources from the State of Illinois!

If anything on this page is not working correctly, please let us know! Email the JKM Library staff at ihaveaquestion@jkmlibrary.org, so we can figure out what the problem is and correct it.

Alumni of McCormick or LSTC: check out our Resources for Alumni page for links and instructions.

Academic E-resources

Bibliography and Style Guides

Chicago Manual of Style Online (18th Edition)
Turabian: A Manual for Writers Citation Quick Guide (at CMOS Online)
The SBL Handbook of Style (at ProQuest Ebook Central)

Religion and the Humanities

⟹ Try our Custom JKM EBSCO search to cover a wide range of needs!

Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS (EBSCO)
(alumni: link here)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Cambridge Core
EBSCO Religion and Philosophy Collection
Humanities Source Ultimate (EBSCO)
JSTOR
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
Project MUSE at Johns Hopkins University

Religion eBook Collections

Atla Historical Monographs Collection (EBSCO)
(very large PDF files, page scans from years 1300–1923)
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
EBSCO eBook Collections
Oxford Handbooks Online
(easier to look for them in Primo)
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford University Press
ProQuest Ebook Central Religion Collection

Open Access Collections

The Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL)

Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries

Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (Theology & Religion Online)
(alumni: link here)
Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries (Theology & Religion Online)
(alumni: link here)
Hermeneia Commentaries by Augsburg Fortress (at Project MUSE)
⤷ follow link, then hit refresh
Ministry Matters Research Library (new interface 2025, WIP)
⤷ New Interpreter's and some Abingdon commentaries available
⤷ New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible not yet available
New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Internet Archive)
volumes: A–C | D–H | I–Ma | Me–R | S–Z
⤷ Each volume can be full-text searched. To borrow, create an account.

⟹ Search for more commentaries in Primo, we have them as ebooks!

Bible Research and Reference

Atla Scripture Search (EBSCO) (video tutorial) (text guide)
(alumni: link here)
Biblical Archaeology Society Library
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) Online (DeGruyter)
(EBR Online is in current development, working on the "P"s in 2025)
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (at Oxford Reference)
Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies
Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible
Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
T&T Clark Jesus Library (Theology & Religion Online)
(alumni: link here)

Church History and Theology

Environmental Science and Religion

Agricola (EBSCO) (USDA National Agriculture Library)
Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (at Oxford Reference)
GreenFILE (EBSCO)

Islam

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World

Pastoral Theology

Ministry Matters (new interface 2025)

Social Issues

Theses and Dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses @ JKM (LSTC Ph.D. dissertations)
Learn@JKM (LSTC and McCormick D.Min. and ACTS D.Min. in Preaching theses)
EBSCO Open Dissertations (American Doctoral Dissertations database)
Atla Research in Ministry (dissertations in ministry, theology, and religion)

Supplementary E-resources

As a member of CARLI, and thanks to grants from the State of Illinois, JKM also offers a range of other electronic resources that may be helpful to our patrons and their families.

Read a book or magazine for fun, keep up with the news, help your children with their school work, or find out all sorts of things you want or need to know!