British Nursing Index

British Nursing Index
Producer ProQuest (United Kingdom)
History 1996 to present
Languages English
Access
Cost subscription
Coverage
Disciplines nursing and midwifery
Format coverage Journal articles
Temporal coverage 1985 to present
Update frequency Monthly
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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]

References

  1. ↑ "About British Nursing Index". National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "British Nursing Index: About". ProQuest. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  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.
  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.
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