According to Red Star News, CNKI has once again been caught in a public opinion storm.
Red Star Capital Bureau noted that a news that "the Chinese Academy of Sciences has suspended the CNKI database due to the overwhelmed renewal cost of nearly 10 million yuan" has been circulated on social media.
It is suspected that the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences issued a notice saying, "In 2021, the total cost of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Group's CNKI database subscription has reached the level of tens of millions, and the high ordering cost has become a 'big Mac' in the introduction of resources by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Group." ”
On April 17, the Red Star Capital Bureau called the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but did not receive a reply until the deadline. However, Red Star Capital Confirmed the matter from a number of Chinese Academy of Sciences insiders.
In fact, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is not the first academic research institution to announce the suspension of the use of CNKI due to high costs. According to incomplete statistics from the Red Star Capital Bureau, due to the continuous increase in the use fee of CNKI, in the past 10 years, at least 6 universities have publicly stated that they are "overwhelmed" by CNKI's price increases, including Peking University.
Red Star Capital Bureau noted that CNKI received strong support from policies in 1999, and received the full support of many universities and scientific research institutions, and then slowly rose. "CNKI should show sincerity in solving problems, win everyone's understanding, and humbly accept supervision and criticism." For today's CNKI frequently faces rights protection and criticism, the People's Daily commented.
We see that CNKI has once again been on the top of the hot search, and in recent years, CNKI has almost always been a state of blackmail, and every time it is not good news, why CNKI will become the public enemy of everyone, how should we look at CNKI?
First of all, objectively speaking, the existence of CNKI is actually a very important thing for the development of China's academic industry, it is precisely because of CNKI, it will be much more convenient for everyone to write papers and do academic research, because on CNKI, you can find most of the papers. Academic research through CNKI is a relatively convenient thing, compared to before you have to go to the library to find other people's academic research results in a magazine, learning on CNKI is actually a relatively easy thing, so the existence of CNKI is very important for the entire academic research, especially for the development of Chinese academic research is a very important and positive thing.
Secondly, although CNKI has developed very well in recent years, there are some problems that have never been solved, which is the relationship between CNKI's public welfare characteristics in academia and its own profit, CNKI as an academic platform itself, its core should be a more public welfare website, its public welfare attributes may be relatively heavy. But CNKI is a commercial organization, as a commercial organization, making money has become its most core purpose, when the two purposes conflict, we see that the final result is that CNKI began to increase its own costs in large quantities, the cost of each enterprise and university is getting higher and higher every year, for many enterprises and universities, itself is relatively limited, and spending so much money every year to purchase CNKI is undoubtedly a very painful thing. And now many college students graduate and want CNKI to check the thesis, the cost of thesis check is also very high, but also become a very stressful thing for students.
Third, from the perspective of the development of CNKI in the long run, CNKI is actually doing a thing of drinking and quenching thirst, and in the short term, it can increase its own profits and improve its income level by increasing its expenses. But in the long run, the current major academic research institutions have begun to reject or even boycott CNKI, CNKI, if the major research institutions continue to be so rejected, it is likely to further produce a chain reaction, is not conducive to their long-term development, CNKI must figure out whether making money is the only purpose, their long-term development and the purpose of making money can be truly organically combined.