From the core resources of CNKI, efficient use of CNKI, accurate and comprehensive retrieval of various academic resources by using CNKI platform, literature management by using research platform, paper writing and submission.

HowNet covers a wealth of resources. It is a retrieval platform that uses the concept of knowledge management, combined with search engine, full-text retrieval, database and other related technologies to find and obtain the required information from knowledge and information.

HowNet database provides China academic literature, foreign literature, dissertations, newspapers, conferences, yearbooks, reference books and other resources, and provides online reading and downloading services. Coverage areas include: basic science, literature, history and philosophy, engineering science and technology, social science, agriculture, economic and management science, medicine and health, information technology and so on.

HowNet database is the largest Chinese database in the world. As the portal website and online publishing platform of China knowledge repository, China HowNet not only realizes the comprehensive integration and dissemination of academic literature resources, but also promotes the dissemination of academic literature in China.

CNKI has a powerful network database full-text retrieval system, and the retrieval method is simple and flexible, which can be easily mastered even by users without professional retrieval knowledge. Because of its advantages of large amount of information, wide coverage, rapid and timely update and comprehensive retrieval service, it has attracted more and more attention from scholars and become an indispensable way to retrieve Chinese materials.