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GEOG 114 (Honors Human Geography) Research Guide

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You may also find background or reference resources when searching in SearchCat. After you perform a search on a simple topic as in the image below, you may have an "about the topic" appear at the top of your search results.  You also may look under publication type under the refine your results options and select Reference Entries. This will show sources such as encyclopedia articles on your topic.

Screen capture of SearchCat search results for Harriet Tubman.  The "About the topic" option that appears at the top of the search results is highlighted in red.  On the left side, the option to refine results to "Reference Entries" is also highlighted in red.

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