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Documentation Unit

Documentation Unit

The Documentation Unit of the Centre has been acting as a hub for research scholars and the faculty members for the last five decades.

 

It has become a fully functional unit with the availability of staff providing necessary assistance to support teaching and learning activities of the Centre. It is referred by research scholars & faculty from various National and International Academic Institutions and NGOs. The statistical details of the users for the last two years are given below:

 

The Documentation Unit of the Centre is extremely rich in the resources relevant to the core issue of Public Health. Its house many rare books, journal articles and other reading materials on development, environment, gender, urban issues, nutrition, reproductive health, population, epidemiology, biostatistics, health services and health systems, public policy, public/health administration. The reading material listed in each course is available in original as well as copies to facilitate easy access to the users. A wide range of users from the within and outside the university use the resources here as evident from Table 4.

 

Table 4 Documents Unit Users' Academic Affiliations (time)
Central University
International University
Our Centre Scholars
JNU other Centres
NGOs
Total
25
08
125
202
40
400
 
Resource Material Details
The Unit has grown into a specialised collection of documents procured through purchase or as gifted donations by the faculty members from time to time for reference over the years. The collection housed in the Documentation Unit comprises of books, journals, official reports, monographs, articles, PhD theses, MPhil dissertations and MPH district field reports (Table 5). We also have a soft copy of the article on communicable diseases send by ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubneswar.

 

We record our appreciation to Dr. Alpana Sagar and Dr. Imrana Qadeer for gifting valuable books and materials from their personal collections.  The books are purchased from the capacity building funds of individual faculty members and the projects undertaken by the faculty members from ESRC, Wellcome Trust, ICMR, ICSSR, NCW, SICI and UGC.
 
Table 5 Number of Books /reading material etc.
Theses
120
Dissertations
293
MPH District report
83
Purchased Books
1890
VHAI Collection
270
Central Library Collection
436
Gifted Books
1254
Gifted Reports
869
Misc. Other reports
1500
Micro documents/Reading Articles
2500
The following is the list of subjects/areas on which the books are available in the Documentation Unit (Table 6)
 
Table 6- List of Subject/Area of books in the Doc Unit
S.NO
SUBJECT/AREAS
1.
Public Health
2.
Women and Health
3.
Reproduction, Population, Demography, Family Planning and Fertility
4.
Anthropology- Cultural, Clinical, Applied and Medical
5.
Comparative Health Policy- Planning and Promotion
6.
Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Prevention of Disease
7.
Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition
8.
Urabanisation and Health
9.
Political Economy of Health
10.
Workers Health
11.
Research Methodology-Qualitative / Quantitative and Health Statistics
12.
Psychology
13.
Environment- Ecology and Sustainable Development
14.
Operational Research
15.
Population Health and Development
16.
Communication, media and health
17.
Community Health Nursing
18
Health Education and Administration
19
Social Sciences
20.
Communicable Disease
21
Epidemiology

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.