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^[update], the database covers more than 700 journal titles, over half of which are current publications.^[2]

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.libguides.com/BNI
Title list(s)	www.proquest.com/documents/Title_List_-_British_Nursing_Index.html

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]