China HowNet, founded in June 1999, is an academic platform of Tongfang shares controlled by China National Nuclear Corporation Capital Holdings Co., Ltd. HowNet is the concept of National Knowledge Infrastructure (NKI), which was put forward by the World Bank in June 1998.
HowNet is a full-text database. Provide CNKI source database, foreign language database, industrial database, agricultural database, medical database, economic database and educational database. Among them, the comprehensive databases include China periodical full-text database, China doctoral thesis database, China excellent master thesis full-text database, China important newspapers full-text database and China important conference literary theory full-text database. Each database provides three retrieval functions: primary retrieval, advanced retrieval and professional retrieval.
The problem of HowNet is the lack of technical content.
HowNet is more like a copyright agent than an Internet technology enterprise that is good at technology. Users will naturally calculate the economic account, because they don't feel the added value of technology. It is inevitable to be accused of buying things for one dollar, then selling them for ten dollars, monopolizing resources and constantly raising prices. In this situation of resource monopoly, HowNet has no need to make progress, and the technical gap with foreign data companies is getting farther and farther.
The copyright fee of the paper should mainly belong to the author or unit, and the main income of Internet companies should come from their own technology and services, such as more accurate algorithms, data processing and classification, and more thoughtful services. If Internet companies do not pursue technological progress, it will be extremely unfavorable for national scientific research if they only rely on resource monopoly to keep an eye on the copyright price difference.
Many papers of HowNet come from public universities. The state should liberalize the copyright of papers in public universities and scientific research institutions as real infrastructure, or make it free for domestic users and charge foreign users. Even if the paper charges copyright fees, the fees mainly belong to the author or the author's unit. Of course, it is best for public institutions to obtain papers for free as a national infrastructure. In this way, market competition is introduced in the field of paper retrieval and analysis, so that companies like HowNet can develop technology, develop more advanced search engines and analysis tools, and rely on technology to make profits. Only in this way can the data industry and national scientific research really benefit.