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Enter one or more words and click Go. Separate words with a space.
For example: reward motivation
Use double quotation marks to search for an exact phrase.
For example: "data protection act"
Use * to search for variants of words.
For example: charit* will find charity, charities, charitable.
Search categories (see panel at bottom of results list)
By default your search results are presented in a single, uncategorised list with the most relevant items appearing first.
To see your results in categories choose Group results by category and click Go.
Tick the categories that you want to include in your search or tick Search all categories.
Results from People Management magazine
Click on the tab labelled Results from People Management website to see full text articles for the last month. Subscribers to People Management and CIPD members can see all articles full text.
CIPD recommended results
A blue CIPD recommends box may appear above your results list. It will contain any sections of our web site that would make good starting points for the search terms you have used.
Search language (applies to Advanced Search also)
| Simple queries |
a single word, or words separated by spaces (not case sensitive); fewer search terms bring more results |
| and |
for example, appraisal and performance finds only pages containing both words |
| or |
for example, appraisal or performance finds pages containing either of the words |
| not |
for example, appraisal not performance finds pages containing the first word but not the second |
Advanced Search
The four main search fields are:
| Anywhere in text |
includes author’s name, title, publisher, abstract and keywords
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| Title |
words in the title only |
| Author |
for example ulrich or ulrich dave or ulrich d* or torrington and hall |
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Keywords |
subject terms taken from CIPD's thesaurus of people management and development terms; using commas to separate words or phrases will find all pages with either of the keywords or keyword phrases, for example,
performance management, leadership |
You can search using just one field or a combination of fields.
Note: keywords
If you click on any results from Library resources, you will find keywords that you can click on to find other similar items.
See more about search results for Library resources below.
Date range
Choose a pre-set time period from the drop down list or specify your own date range.
Use complete years for the best results when searching CIPD Library resources.
Group/Don't group
See results sorted into our categories or in a single list.
Order by
Specify the order in which your results are presented. You can also specify how your results are sorted within categories if Group results by category has been chosen.
The three sort options are :
| Default |
applies to grouped results only: results are ordered by relevance to your search terms, except news and other time-critical material which is displayed most recent first |
| Relevance |
most relevant documents of all types are displayed first, grouped or ungrouped |
| Date |
most recent documents are displayed first; events are ordered by event date; off-line resources, for example books, are ordered by publication date |
Search categories
Tick the categories in which you wish to search.
Searching Library resources will find both books and journal articles. It is not possible at present to select just books or just articles.
Locations
Choose to search the CIPD website, People Management website or both.
Search results for Library resources
The results give you:
- the title of the item
- the 'control code' (you will need this to order the item from us)
- the author (if there is one)
- what sort of item it is (book, journal article)
- the publication date.
Click on the title to see more detail about an item.
Click on Author and Keyword links to search further on the author or keyword.
Results for books give an abstract, full publication details and show how many copies are in the Library and whether they are currently available for lending. 'HOLD' means that the book is for reference only and cannot be loaned.
Journal articles have a full reference and an abstract.
Note: The full text of Library items is not available on our website for copyright reasons. The full text of People Management articles published in the last month is available at peoplemanagement.co.uk. Subscribers and CIPD members can see the full text of People Management articles going back to the late 1990s.
Library items can be ordered from us either as a book loan or as a photocopied article.
See our Library FAQs for more information on our lending or photocopying services.