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 |
| Links | |
| Website | proquest |
| Title list(s) | www |
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[update], 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[update], 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
[edit]- ^ "About British Nursing Index". National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Archived from the original on 21 March 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ "British Nursing Index: About". Retrieved 1 May 2016 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Priddey, Debbie (1 March 2010). "British Nursing Index - a key UK nursing and midwifery resource". Libraries for Nursing Journal.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ 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.
