Academic E-Resources

The JKM Library maintains a growing selection of electronic resources to support your research activities. All paid subscription resources here are accessible with your OpenAthens login. (Resources for alumni are located here.)

This page has links for JKM's seminary coursework and research resources. Scroll down to find articles, e-books, online reference works, and more!

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!

These valuable resources are provided through EBSCO thanks to our partnerships with CARLI and the Illinois State Library.

If any of the services on this page are 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.

Article Search  |  Citation and Style Guides

E-Books  |  Online Reference  |  Open Access

Bible Scholarship  |  Historical Christianity

Pastoral Theology  |  Theses and Dissertations

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!

 

Citation and Style Guides

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

 

E-Book Collections

If you're looking for e-books, most are available in Primo, our catalog. When you search the catalog, they will show up as "Available Online."

For instructions, check out our guide to using the JKM Library.

You can also search these collections and publisher websites:

You may need to select "content I have access to" to see our subscriptions (plus any free and Open Access resources). You may also need to select a subject area to narrow your selection.

Please note: we may have a named resource (like an Oxford Handbook or Cambridge Companion) available from another source (usually EBSCO) because of our subscriptions, but not directly from its publisher's own website. Always check Primo, our online catalog!

 

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 long, detailed lists of reliable sources for further 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 short descriptions of their contexts:

And, as long as you have access to campus to pick up requests, we also have all of the books in our physical reference collection available for request in Primo, our catalog.

 

Open Access Collections

Open Access resources are under copyright, but licensed so they can be offered free of charge to anyone who might want to use them. This is often done with a variety of Creative Commons licenses, in order to maintain that freedom for others.

(This means that "Open Access" is not the same as "Public Domain," and all licensing terms must be obeyed for you to use these works.)

These collections contain both articles and books:

And these collections contain artwork of various kinds (not all Open Access):

Items in museum collections will be licensed differently depending on what is required of the museum. Their ability to display items on the internet does not make the display images free to use. Some images may be licensed for Open Access, or with Creative Commons, but many are not, and all are subject to copyright law. Always verify the licensing of any materials you wish to use, and obey all licensing terms. Misusing these resources can ruin access for everyone!

 

Bible Scholarship

In addition to general article searches and 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.

The following manuscript source projects are provided freely on the internet, from reputable academic working groups:

 

Historical Christianity

Resources on church history (and other things Christians have done with, around, and alongside scriptural texts):

(Also, check out our Online Reference section above.)

 

Pastoral Theology

Resources for preaching, worship, pastoral care, and more:

(Exegetical resources are in the Bible Scholarship section above.)

 

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:

 

And you can find more electronic resources on our Supplementary E-Resources page! 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!

 

 

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!