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.

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!

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

NEW: All EBSCO resources now have a new look. You can watch our 10-minute video tutorial on all of the differences. Atla "Scripture Search" in particular has been made slightly more complicated to access, and we explain how to use it.

Auxiliary links to the old interface will remain until it is phased out in January 2025.

As always, no matter which EBSCO database you click on first, you can then choose additional databases—even all of them!—and search them together. Click on "Searching:" in the new interface, or "Choose Databases" in the old.

Bibliographic Resources

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 (old interface here) (video tutorial)
(alumni: new interface or old)
Academic Search Complete (old interface here)
EBSCO Religion and Philosophy Collection (old interface here)
Humanities Source Ultimate (NEW!) (old interface here)
JSTOR
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion

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

Bible Research and Reference

Biblical Archaeology Society Library
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) Online (DeGruyter, vols. 1–22 as of 2024)
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)

Church History and Theology

Environmental Science and Religion

Agricola (old interface here) (from the USDA National Agriculture Library)
Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (at Oxford Reference)
GreenFILE (old interface here)

Islam

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World

Pastoral Theology

Ministry Matters

Social Issues

EBSCO eBook Diversity and Ethnic Studies Collection (old interface here)
EBSCO Ethnic Diversity Source (old interface here)
EBSCO Family Studies Abstracts (old interface here)
EBSCO Family and Society Studies Worldwide (old interface here)
EBSCO Left Index (old interface here)
EBSCO LGBTQ+ Source (old interface here)
EBSCO Urban Studies Abstracts (old interface here)
EBSCO Violence and Abuse Abstracts (old interface here)
EBSCO Women's Studies International (old interface here)
⤷ JKM Recommends: Combined EBSCO Social Issues search

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!