Journals and databases

British Nursing Index (BNI) - 1985 to date

About BNI

The British Nursing Index (BNI) is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from the most popular English language nursing journals published primarily in the UK. BNI is a comprehensive index covering all aspects of nursing, midwifery and community healthcare from 1985 to the present, and is updated monthly.

This database is provided by Ovid.

Fields

You can enter field codes directly into the search box in this format:
term.code
eg depression.ti

AB
Abstract [Word Indexed]
work.ab
abandoned.ab
The Abstract (AB) field contains a summary of the document.

AF All Searchable Fields
heart.af
The All Searchable Fields (AF) field contains all words included in any field, with the exception of stopwords

AN
Accession Number [Phrase Indexed]
63529.an
259.an
The Accession Number (AN) field contains the number assigned by BNI Publications to uniquely identify a particular record.

AU Author [Phrase Indexed]
"smith j*".au
"smith je".au
"smith*".au.

The Author (AU) field contains the names of the authors of the article. This field requires a complete match, so use the format "smith j*" , "smith je" or "smith*" (include the quotes).

DE
Non-Thesaurus Subject Headings [Display Only]
The Non-Thesaurus Subject Headings (DE) field displays terms no longer used by the current BNI Thesaurus, but that were used some time in the past. However, if you search for a term in the Subject Headings (SH) or Heading Words (HW) fields, and that term has been discontinued, the results will appear in the DE field.

DP
Date of Publication [Display Only]
The Date of Publication (DP) field contains the date of publication for an article. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

HW
Heading Words [Word Indexed]
culture.hw.
The Heading Words (HW) field contains a word indexed list of all current and discontinued subject headings.

IP
Issue/Part [Word Indexed]
"3".ip.
The Issue/part field (IP) contains the Issue and/or part for a particular volume of a serial publication. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

IS
ISSN [Phrase Indexed]
1462-138x.is.
The ISSN (IS) field contains the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for the journal in which an article was published. It appears as an 8-digit number, separated by a hyphen.

JN, JT Journal Name [Phrase Indexed]
"zoology analysis of complex systems".jn.

The Journal Name (JN) field contains the full name of the journal in which the article was published. This field requires a complete match so use the format "british journal of nursing", surgery (for a one word title) or surgery* (for titles beginning with...). You may find it more convenient to use the Journal Word field (.jx) instead. Journal names are indexed as phrases.

JX
Journal Word [Word Indexed]
obstetrics.jx.
The Journal Word (JX) field contains individual words from every journal. This field is used to retrieve every occurrence of a journal which includes a particular word such as "nursing."

PG
Page [Word Indexed]
"44".pg.
The first page on which an article appears is indexed in the Page (PG) field. Often a journal title combined with the beginning page number and volume is enough to locate a citation. Pagination information displays in the Source (SO) field.

SH
Subject Headings [Phrase Indexed]
psychiatric disorders.sh.
The Subject Headings (SH) field contains all current and discontinued terms used to describe an article.

SO
Source [Phrase Indexed]
stroke.so.
The Source (SO) field contains the citation information for the record. It is created from the Journal Name (JN), Date of Publication (DP), Volume (VO), Issue/Part (IP), and Pagination (PG) information.

TI
Title [Word Indexed]
bone marrow.ti.
The Title (TI) field contains the title of the document. In some cases the title field will contain the number of references in the article.

UP
Update Code [Phrase Indexed]
"200609".up.
"20064".up.
The Update Code (UP) is in YYYY or YYYYMM format, where YYYY is the 4 digit year and MM is the month of the update.

VO
Volume [Word Indexed]
"7".vo.
The Volume (VO) field consists of the volume number of a serial publication. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

YR
Year of Publication [Word Indexed]
"1996".yr.
The Year (YR) field contains the four-digit year in which an article or monograph

Stopwords

Stopwords have been eliminated from this Ovid database. You can now search for words or phrases like is there hope.tw. Previously such searches would have returned an error because they included stopwords.

Limits

The following limits are available in this database:

Latest Update
A limit to latest update will restrict retrieval to documents which were most recently added to the database.

Publication Year
A limit to Publication Year will restrict retrieval to the year the article was published. If you choose this option you will be prompted to enter the desired year; the format is 4 digits: "1989" or a range: "1998-2001".