Resources for Alumni
Today, e-resources are plentiful, but licensing restrictions limit most access to only current students, staff, and faculty of McCormick and LSTC.
However, we at the JKM Library are still committed to extending the online services we can to our alumni patrons!
Please email us at ihaveaquestion@jkmlibrary.org for the usernames and passwords to log in to the services listed below. We have to change the passwords for these services annually, so if and when they stop working for you, just ask us for the new ones; we'll be happy to provide them!
Anchor Yale Bible
We offer our alumni access to the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary and Commentaries through Bloomsbury's "Theology and Religion Online," using the following links:
(Note: the Anchor Yale is a closed set, not including anything after 2018, or William Foxwell Albright’s commentary on Matthew.)
EBSCO Resources
Our most commonly-used database, the Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS, is available for our alumni to access.
Note: this is a new link, because all of the EBSCO services have undergone a major redesign. You can access the old interface here, until 2025.
You can also watch our 10-minute tutorial video about the changes between the interface you've been used to, and the new interface. "Scripture Search" in particular has been made slightly more complicated to access, and we explain how to use it.
Our username and password will not work with any "ATLAS" links from the now-unmaintained "The Text This Week" website. While it remains a valuable reference, those links will return an authentication error. Please try searching for the author and article title manually using our database link.
Many things you can find in the Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS are available in full-text, whether as PDFs or as HTML versions, but not everything.
If the article you want is not available in full-text, follow the "Click here to request a scanned copy of an article or essay/chapter" link, fill out the request form, and click "Submit."
We cannot loan you physical or ebooks, but we will find out whether the article in question is available to JKM, and scan and email it to you if we are able.
You can also search the Atla Historical Monographs Collection, containing page-scanned books from the 1400s up through 1922. To add these to your search, just click on "Searching:" in the new interface, or "Choose Databases" in the old, and tick the boxes next to Series 1 and Series 2.
You also have access, through this same interface, to a couple of medical resources: the Consumer Health Reference eBook Collection, and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
