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BritishNursingIndex

New 5/7/04

Database Name: BritishNursingIndex
Short Database Name: BRNI
Available on: FirstSearch Production Server only

Why select this database?

  • Provides extensive and up-to-date coverage of all major English language nursing and midwifery journals published in the UK
  • Includes articles from medical, health management and allied health journals which are relevant to (UK) nurses and midwives
  • Is an authoritative partnership of the Libraries of Bournemouth University, Poole Hospital NHS Trust, Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust and the Royal College of Nursing
  • Links to full-text articles via OpenURL
Subjects included
accident and emergency nursing midwifery student nurses
breast cancer nurse practitioner, orthopaedic nursing theatre nursing
community healthcare perinatal and neonatal mortality wounds
disabilities psychiatric nursing  
evidence-based practice learning reflective practice  

Coverage/update frequency

Covers 1993 to the present.
New records are added monthly.

Record display information

List of FirstSearch fields for BritishNursingIndex and the MARC fields to which they correspond:

Field Name MARC field
Control Number Identifier 003
Date Time of Last Transaction 005
Date 008<date>
Accession Number 035/a
Cataloging Source 040/a,b,e
Author 100/a
Title Statement 245/a,b
References 504/a,b
Abstract 520/a
Subject Added Entry, Topical 650/a,2
Added Entry, Personal Name 700/a
Host Item Entry (Source) 773/g
Source Title 773/t
ISSN 773/x
Library Holdings 948
Detailed holdings information is available in FirstSearch Z39.50 Configuration Guide - Element Set Names
Source Volume 949/a
Source Issue 949/b
Source Pages 949/c
Source Date 949/e
First Page Number 949/f
Marketing Defined Date 949/g

Indexes

What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE attributes that can be used to access them.

  1. For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
  2. Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the SCAN service.
  3. Restrictors are specially implemented indexes and are not available for scanning. Terms for these must be ANDed with other terms to limit the size of the result set. See the table provided for each restrictor to determine valid terms and their associated meaning.

FirstSearch Indexes and USE and STRUCTURE attributes used to access them:

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
Keyword (kw) Any 1016 2 Includes fields in the following indexes:
Author
Abstract
Source
Subject
Title
Abstract (ab) Abstract

62

2 520/a
Accession Number (no) Control number-local 12 2 035/a
Author (au,au=) Author-name 1003 1,2 100/a
700/a
First Page (pg) OCLC Defined 5006 2 949/f
Issue (is) OCLC Defined 5004 2 949/b
Source (so, so=) Title-host-item 1033 1,2 773/t
Standard Number (sn, sn=) Identifier-standard 1007 1,2 035/a
773/x
Subject (su, su=) Subject 21 1,2 650/a
Title (ti, ti=) Title 4 1,2 245/a
Volume (vo) OCLC Defined 5013 2 949/a

Restrictors

The following restrictors can be used only in conjunction with an index search.   They must be added to an index search with the Boolean AND in order to receive results:

Restrictor Type Input Use Attribute Structure Attribute Fields
Year All Years
Single Year
Range of Years		 --
19XX, 20XX
19XX-20XX		 31 5 008<date>

Note: To find the OCLC symbol for an institution, please see the online version of OCLC Participating Institutions.

Sorting

Search results in the BritishNursingIndex database can be sorted by Author (1003), Title (4), Publication Date (30), and Source (1033).

General punctuation rules

(exceptions are made, but these are generally correct):

Punctuation Rule Punctuation Rule
" Delete and collapse $ Delete and collapse
' (apostrophe) Delete and collapse % Delete and collapse
. Delete and collapse * Delete and collapse
, (comma) Delete and collapse + Delete and collapse
; Delete and collapse > Delete and collapse
: Delete and collapse < Delete and collapse
() Delete and collapse @ Delete and collapse
<> Delete and collapse ? Delete and collapse
{} Delete and collapse -- Delete and collapse
[] Delete and collapse / Substitute a space
= Delete and collapse - Retain and index
! Delete and collapse & Retain and index
# Delete and collapse

Searching tips

Keyword searches (1016): The Keyword search finds information in these fields: Abstract (520/a); Author (100/a, 700/a); Source (773/t); Subject (650/a) and Title (245/a,b).

Using limiters: You can limit searches by Year (31).

Copyright

BNI Publications 1994 to present. All rights reserved.