British Nursing Index

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]

British Nursing Index
ProducerProQuest (United Kingdom)
History1996 to present
LanguagesEnglish
Access
Costsubscription
Coverage
Disciplinesnursing and midwifery
Format coverageJournal articles
Temporal coverage1985 to present
Update frequencyMonthly
Links

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. 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. 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.
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