The IRC maintains a small collection of printed materials containing books, U.S. government documents and current American periodicals supplemented by a CD-ROM collection including the ProQuest General Periodicals Ondisc which provides access to over 300 titles in full text as well as abstracts of articles in approximately 1400 magazines, updated monthly.
All services are free of charge.
Aside from that, from our Washington File, an electronic information source from the U.S. State Department in Washington, we select transcripts of U.S. officials' speeches, articles and commentaries from U.S. print and electronic press for translation and distribution to interested Vietnamese readers and also to the local press for placement. The Book Translation Program purchases copyrights and sometimes covers the costs of translating and publishing American books into Vietnamese. Sponsorship is provided on a competitive basis to interested Vietnamese institutions who are also encouraged to share the costs with PAS and must agree to distribute the books commercially. Titles in the fields of social sciences and humanities, economics, as well as works of fiction are within the scope of this program. On behalf of the J. William Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships and the U.S. State Department, PAS Hanoi administers all elements to ensure a smooth and systematic development of the Fulbright Program in Vietnam.