Wilmette Institute provides faculty and students with access to professional academic library resources and services that support undergraduate- and graduate-level research across a wide range of disciplines.
Through its membership in the Library and Information Resources Network (LIRN), a consortium that provides access to peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary scholarly content, the Institute offers access to the LIRN ProQuest Core Package, including ProQuest Central, a comprehensive research database.
Enrolled students can access these resources, along with training materials, through the LIRN library portal using their Wilmette Institute email credentials, as well as through the WI Library page on Moodle. These resources and services are intended to support curriculum development, academic inquiry, and the advancement of research skills.
Open Access Library Resources
In addition, WI provides tutorials to faculty and students to open access library resources such as Project MUSE, Directory of Open Access Journals, and JURN.
Project MUSE provides free online access to open access books, journals, and digital humanities content from renowned university presses, academic societies, and independent non-profit publishers. As an open access hosting platform, Project MUSE ensures this scholarly material is highly visible, discoverable, and widely shared. Wilmette Institute invites the students and faculty to freely access thousands of open access books and journals covering an array of academic disciplines like religion, history, literature, philosophy, and more. This freely available content supports graduate-level research in the liberal arts and theological studies.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) indexes thousands of high-quality, peer-reviewed academic journals that are freely available online worldwide. DOAJ opens doors to reputable open access journals spanning disciplines and regions. Wilmette Institute users can discover relevant scholarly articles through this comprehensive discovery tool. Contact a librarian for help accessing open access journals on DOAJ.
JURN is a specialized search engine that indexes open access academic literature. It enables users to easily find free, full-text scholarly articles, books, and content from open access sources. JURN searches through a carefully curated index of relevant materials, while utilizing Google’s powerful search capabilities. At Wilmette Institute, students and faculty can use JURN to quickly discover freely available publications to support their research.
