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Poked the Chinese Academy of Sciences horse honeycomb: Zhai Tianlin did not know the knowledge of the network, this time it is famous again

author:Geek Internet Evolution

Friends who have written a graduation thesis know that after the paper is drafted, it needs to be checked, even if you do not choose CNKI to check the weight, you must have heard of CNKI, if you write a graduation thesis but do not know CNKI, then Dr. Zhai Tianlin also called the insider.

Poked the Chinese Academy of Sciences horse honeycomb: Zhai Tianlin did not know the knowledge of the network, this time it is famous again

These two days CNKI is on fire again, like the previous times, this time it is negative news, it seems that there is not much positive news in the impression of CNKI.

And this time, the popularity on the Internet is still a clichéd problem: expensive!

The protagonist of this incident is the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which suspended the use of CNKI due to the nearly "tens of millions of levels" of renewal costs and "harsh" renewal conditions.

According to the world's authoritative Nature Index, the Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in the academic rankings of global institutions/universities, Harvard University can only rank second in this list, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has won the crown for the eighth consecutive time.

Poked the Chinese Academy of Sciences horse honeycomb: Zhai Tianlin did not know the knowledge of the network, this time it is famous again

However, even such a top academic institution cannot afford to pay the CNKI royalties, which must be something wrong.

Is the Chinese Academy of Sciences too poor? Let's take a look at other institutions.

In January 2013, the library of Nanjing Normal University suspended the use of CNKI's CNKI database due to excessive price increases.

In December 2013 and January 2016, Wuhan University of Technology announced the suspension of CNKI twice due to price increases.

In 2016, Peking University and several other universities announced the suspension of renewal of CNKI, due to the increase in prices for many years and the cost was too high.

How much does CNKI increase its price every year?

In 2016, when Wuhan University of Technology announced the suspension of the use of CNKI database, it gave a specific price increase, which mentioned that CNKI's increase from 2010 to 2016 (quotation) was 132.86%, with an average annual increase of 18.98%.

Good guys, the original academic paper "inflation" so serious?

What is the logic of CNKI's price increase? Is the royalty paid to the author increasing year by year?

A few months ago, the topic #CNKI recorded more than 700,000 yuan in compensation for professors' papers in ninety years rushed to the hot search, and this explosion was more concentrated.

A retired old professor named Zhao Dexin, 89 years old, is still revising his own works on weekdays, and in the process of revision, he has to review his research papers.

It turned out that CNKI not only did not tell him about the old professor's articles, but also that he and the readers had to pay for downloads.

Poked the Chinese Academy of Sciences horse honeycomb: Zhai Tianlin did not know the knowledge of the network, this time it is famous again

However, in the past few years, he has not received a penny of manuscript fees.

The old professor was angry, and CNKI, which had collected more than 100 of his papers without authorization, started a lawsuit. Without exception, he won all the cases and received a total of more than 700,000 yuan in compensation.

To interject here, CNKI's database literature mainly comes from journal inclusion or education system inclusion, and the cost of obtaining literature from academic journals is very low, and some only symbolically pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a year. Now many academic journals dare not let CNKI reprint, because once you can't retrieve the articles of your journal on the Internet, the influence will decline, and you can expand your reputation after reprinting, and money is not the main one at this time.

On May 25, 2018, when Liu Moumou, a junior student, downloaded the literature on CNKI, the webpage prompted that he needed to pay 7 yuan, but the minimum recharge amount of CNKI was 50 yuan, so he sued the court, and finally the court ruled that the provisions of the CNKI Recharge Center on the minimum recharge limit were invalid, and Liu won the case.

Good guys, CNKI not only white prostitution papers but also strong buying and selling? How profitable is this business model?

According to public information, CNKI belongs to Tongfang Shares, an A-share listed company, and Tongfang Shares owns 98.98% of the equity of Tongfang CNKI Digital Publishing Technology Co., Ltd.

According to the annual report of Tongfang shares

In 2020, the business revenue of Tongfang CNKI reached 1.16 billion yuan, the gross profit margin was 53.93%, and the net profit of the year was 192 million yuan.

In 2017, the business revenue of Tongfang CNKI reached 970 million yuan, with a gross profit margin of 61.23%, and the net profit of the year was 196 million yuan.

In 2016, Tongfang CNKI's operating income was 834 million yuan, the gross profit margin was 63.48%, and the net profit in that year was 176 million yuan.

CNKI's gross profit margin has remained at about 60% for a long time, and such a high gross profit margin not only pays less to the author's paper copyright, but also raises the price of the database sharply every year, and the money is not so just.

So is there a peer to check or replace CNKI?

Poked the Chinese Academy of Sciences horse honeycomb: Zhai Tianlin did not know the knowledge of the network, this time it is famous again

As China's largest electronic resource database, CNKI is currently the most widely used platform in major universities, in addition to CNKI, the domestic mainstream paper retrieval platform also has Weipu, Wanfang, checkvip, etc., their market share is not as high as CNKI, it can be said that although CNKI has not formed a monopoly position, but its right to speak is the heaviest, the impact on the entire industry is also the largest. In order to support the innovation of students or scholars, scientific research institutions can only accept high-priced royalties, after all, academic innovation is the most important.

CNKI has produced so many negative news in recent years, can only say that the business model has reached a time when it needs to change, on the one hand, it is to strengthen the protection of knowledge copyright owners, and it costs money to download their own papers, which does not make sense anywhere; on the other hand, the external quotation of CNKI database also needs to be open, transparent, predictable and acceptable, and the annual database copyright fee is obviously unsustainable, if THE copyright fee of CNKI is included in the CPI of the Statistics Bureau, then it is still necessary.

CNKI,CnKI,China National Knowledge Infrastructure," wrote the original intention of founder Wang Liangming when introducing itself: "With the overall goal of comprehensively opening up the information channels of knowledge production, dissemination, diffusion and utilization of various links, and creating a communication and cooperation platform that supports knowledge innovation, learning and application in various industries across the country." ”

Poked the Chinese Academy of Sciences horse honeycomb: Zhai Tianlin did not know the knowledge of the network, this time it is famous again

CNKI has indeed promoted the dissemination and diffusion of information to a certain extent over the years, but it has gone against the original intention in supporting the knowledge innovation of various industries, and the sharp price increases over the years have made many colleges and universities unable to use it.

There is a saying in China called "if you want to get rich before building roads", as a knowledge network of academic infrastructure, the price has risen sharply year by year, so that many colleges and universities can not climb high, even "infrastructure" can not afford, the industry still talk about development?

I hope that CNKI will not forget its mission and responsibility on the way forward.

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