The charging logic of HowNet's "hegemony"
1. In recent years, the popularity of HowNet in the field of public opinion has not diminished. For example, six universities, including Peking University, announced that they would suspend the use of HowNet due to excessive fees. Every graduation season, college students collectively spit out the overcharged check fees. At the end of 2002 100, hownet was sued by Zhao Dexin, a retired professor, for including more than100 papers without authorization, and was finally awarded more than 700,000 yuan.
2. For individual users, on the one hand, HowNet sells duplicate checking services, and the high cost of several hundred yuan makes a large number of graduates complain, on the other hand, it collects paper scores at ultra-low prices or even "white bars". What is even more unreasonable is that the author of the paper has to pay for downloading the paper himself.
3. As a knowledge infrastructure and public welfare platform, HowNet should and must embody certain public welfare attributes. But it backfired. At present, HowNet's impulse to make money is changing its role from stepping stone to stumbling block to some extent.
Today, with the development of science and technology, the cost of enjoying knowledge is decreasing, but HowNet, as a knowledge intermediary, is constantly raising the charging price. Leading top academic and scientific research institutions like the Chinese Academy of Sciences to flinch is tantamount to reversing the times.