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What are Reference Tools?

• Resources that give you specific facts, definitions, overviews, background information and citations
• Helps you with narrowing a topic - or to give you additional ideas on a topic
• Good for looking up definitions of concepts

• Tools might include:

• encyclopedias, dictionaries & thesauruses, biographies, handbooks, atlases & maps

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• To find examples of Reference tools by subject, check out our Subject Guide pages.

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•        Example searches: eating disorders, holocaust

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