Academic E-Resources

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

Our resources for seminary coursework and research are on this page, but we have many other resources provided by CARLI and the Illinois State Library.

Check out our supplementary e-resources page to read a book or magazine for fun, keep up with the news, help your children with their school work, pick up a hobby, and find out all sorts of things you want or need to know!

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.

Article Search

If you're looking for journal articles (and maybe a few e-books) for your research:

Find specific journals using our Publication Finder, and read our guide to finding articles in full text!

 

Bibliography and Style Guides

If you need help formatting your papers, or figuring out how to cite your sources:

 

E-Book Collections

If you're just looking for e-books, most are available in Primo, our catalog. When you search the catalog, they will show up as "Available Online." For help, check out our guide to using the JKM Library.

You can also search these collections and publisher websites:

 

Online Reference

If you need expert summaries (short or long) on your topic, whether you're working in Bible, church history, theology, or on other religions, look it up in a larger reference work:

Bibliographies

Search for your subject and get lists of reliable sources for more research:

Dictionaries

Search for your subject and get short definitions and explanations:

Encyclopedias

Search for your subject and get detailed entries with bibliographies:

Guides

Search for your subject and get brief descriptions of their contexts:

 

Open Access Collections

"Open Access" resources are created and licensed so they can be offered free of charge to anyone who might need them:

 

Bible Scholarship

In addition to the larger online reference works above, we also have some special Bible commentaries and resources:

You should also search Primo, our catalog, for more Bible commentaries! You can borrow e-books from JKM, and request physical books from JKM and any other I-Share library.

 

Pastoral Theology

For preaching, worship, pastoral care, and more:

 

Theses and Dissertations

Graduate study often culminates in a professional project, meant to contribute to the knowledge of all other scholars working in the same field. Search for unpublished work here:

 

You can also visit one of our partner libraries in person, including the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library—or, if you are much farther away, any academic or public library near you—and use their electronic resources as a guest while connected to their wifi.

Please follow all policies of the library you are visiting!