British Nursing Index

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British Nursing Index
Producer ProQuest (United Kingdom)
History1996 to present
LanguagesEnglish
Access
Costsubscription
Coverage
Disciplinesnursing and midwifery
Format coverageJournal articles
Temporal coverage1985 to present
Update frequencyMonthly
Links
Website proquest.libguides.com/BNI
Title list(s) www.proquest.com/documents/Title_List_-_British_Nursing_Index.html

The British Nursing Index (BNI) is a bibliographic database of nursing and midwifery journal articles. The index contains details of English language articles from 1985 to the present, and is updated monthly. [1] As of 2016, the database covers more than 700 journal titles, over half of which are current publications. [2]

In 1991, the Nursing and Midwifery Index (NMI) was created by health librarians at Poole Hospital, Salisbury District Hospital and Bournemouth University; this became a database in 1994. [3]

The BNI database was formed in 1996 with the merging of the Nursing and Midwifery Index database and the Royal College of Nursing’s Nursing Bibliography. [4] The BNI database was launched on 1 January 1997 and covered 220 journals. [5] As of September 2013, 81 of the journal titles indexed by BNI are not covered by the CINAHL databases, and 51 of these are published in the UK. [4]

In 2011 the database was acquired by ProQuest. [4]

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References

  1. "About British Nursing Index". National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Archived from the original on 21 March 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  2. "British Nursing Index: About" . Retrieved 1 May 2016 via ProQuest.
  3. Priddey, Debbie (1 March 2010). "British Nursing Index - a key UK nursing and midwifery resource". Libraries for Nursing Journal.
  4. 1 2 3 Briscoe, Simon; Cooper, Chris (September 2014). "The British Nursing Index and CINAHL: a comparison of journal title coverage and the implications for information professionals". Health Information & Libraries Journal. 31 (3): 195–203. doi: 10.1111/hir.12069 . PMID   25041256.
  5. Beard, Jill (June 1997). "British Nursing Index—the UK's most comprehensive nursing index launch". Health Libraries Review. 14 (2): 124. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2532.1997.14201213.x .