Database
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]
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