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Machine Heart Editorial Department
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has "made a model" for other universities.
Last Sunday, a hot post rumor that "the Chinese Academy of Sciences has suspended CNKI's CNKI database due to nearly 10 million renewal costs" triggered extensive discussion among netizens about CNKI's operating model.
On Monday, both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and CNKI made a preliminary response to the matter. The Chinese Academy of Sciences said that the suspension of the news is true, and will replace CNKI with Wanfang and Weipu. CNKI initially responded simply to the message "not true". After a few days of fermentation, the relevant discussions about the Chinese Academy of Sciences and CNKI are still on the Zhihu hot list.
On the afternoon of April 19, CNKI made an official response to the "Explanation of Cooperation Services with the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" on its official public account. CNKI said it will continue to provide normal services to all institutes affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences until the 2022 annual agreement is signed and services are started.
The following is the full text of CNKI's response:
For a long time, CNKI has worked closely with the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to jointly devote itself to document information protection services. In response to social concerns, the following explanations are made on the cooperation services between the two sides.
1. Since 1997, CNKI has begun to provide a series of database services for the institutes affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2008, CNKI has cooperated with the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uniformly and centrally purchased databases such as CNKI journals and doctoral and master's theses to serve the institutes affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. CNKI has always cooperated sincerely with the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, providing a good guarantee service for the research and teaching work of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Second, in 2022, the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences adjusted the procurement mode of some databases at home and abroad, including cnki databases, from a unified centralized procurement model to a joint procurement model organized by institutions in need. After friendly consultation, the work of adjusting the subscription model of CNKI database is being carried out in an orderly manner, and the order content is selected by each institute, and it is planned to complete the group work, sign the agreement and start the 2022 annual service in the near future.
3. After the expiration of the 2021 annual agreement, in order to meet the literature access needs of scientific researchers and teachers and students, the Documentation And Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and CNKI agreed to extend the subscription service to March 31. During the transition period after April 1, CNKI continued to provide various services without service stoppage or interruption. CNKI will also continue to provide normal services to the institutes affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences until the 2022 annual agreement is signed and the service is started.
Fourth, in the future, CNKI will continue to strengthen technological innovation, improve service capabilities, ensure service quality, and provide more comprehensive and high-quality document security services for every scientific worker and the majority of teachers and students.
Hereby described.
Tongfang CNKI (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd
April 19, 2022
The content of this response is relatively short, and it is difficult to read too much information from it.
Under the influence of "the world's bitter knowledge network for a long time", everyone's resistance mentality is very strong.
In response to CNKI's response, netizens half ridiculed and half asked: "If the Chinese Academy of Sciences has not renewed, will CNKI deactivate the authority of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?"
Some netizens also appealed, "Don't other colleges follow?"
In fact, it can be seen that this response has not yet received satisfactory answers to many questions that everyone cares about, such as how will the follow-up service fee be adjusted? Have other schools already consulted with them? Is this monopoly expected to be broken? If these problems are not resolved, similar contradictions will continue to play out.
Reference Links:
https://www.zhihu.com/question/528852934
IJCAI 2022 - Neural MMO Massive AI Team Survival Challenge
On April 14th, the "IJCAI 2022-Neural MMO Massive AI Team Survival Challenge" was officially launched, initiated by Hyperparameter Technology, co-sponsored by MIT, Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School and AIcrowd, a well-known data science challenge platform.
Themed "Finding the Strongest AI Team in the Future Open World", the tournament achieved higher achievements than other contestants by exploring, searching and fighting in Neural MMO's massive multi-agent environment. The game also sets new rules, evaluates the strategic robustness of agents against new maps and different opponents, and introduces cooperation and role division in AI teams, enriching the content of the game and enhancing the fun.