It is not the first time that HowNet is suspected of monopolizing the industry. Earlier, Zhao Dexin, a retired professor at Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics, said that HowNet had included more than 0/00 papers of its own without authorization, not only did it not pay the manuscript fee, but the author himself had to pay for downloading the papers. In this regard, Professor Zhao Dexin was particularly angry, and a paper complaint took HowNet to court. After ruling, the court ruled that the infringement of Zhiwang was true.
With the support of national resources and policies, we have built a high wall of academic exchanges? In addition to infringement, HowNet has always been known for its "sky-high" subscription fee. Many colleges and universities are complaining because of the tens of millions of renewal fees of HowNet. According to public information, compared with the download income of HowNet, the original author's remuneration standard is very low, which also means that the annual profit of HowNet is considerable.
Over the years, HowNet has gained a dominant position with its super-high literature collection. The expanded HowNet should have become more responsible and responsible. Without thinking, you are greedy. Not only the minimum recharge consumption quota is set for users, but also the price increase for institutional users every year. In this way, the suspicion that HowNet engages in monopoly is still great.
The problems existing in the operation of HowNet have been exposed many times, but they have not been rectified. Due to high fees, intellectual property disputes with authors and other reasons, China Knowledge Network frequently provoked public anger and controversy.
HowNet has been criticized for its profit model of "eating at both ends": collecting periodical articles at extremely low prices; For the inclusion of graduation thesis, the author needs to submit an application to pay a very low copyright fee, and later download also needs to pay. This is an act of infringing others' copyright laws in disguise to reap huge profits, and it is doomed not to last long.
For a long time, hownet has formed a huge number of users and massive database resources by relying on policy advantages, and has formed a certain monopoly position, especially in doctoral thesis resources, which is also the emboldened place of hownet's price increase.
As the largest document retrieval platform and Chinese database in China, China HowNet must not be monopolized. I hope that the regulatory authorities can thoroughly investigate this matter and return a free sky for academic exchanges as soon as possible.