Chinese Academy of Sciences stopped using HowNet because of "sky-high renewal fee". What did the relevant personnel say about this? At present, the biggest problem of HowNet is not the author's authorization, but that he has essentially monopolized and upgraded from a commercial service to a social basic service. If the article is not included in HowNet, most authors will panic. For example, professional title evaluation, on the basis of providing the original periodical, must also provide the query results of HowNet, which plays the role of notarization and authentication. In this case, it can no longer be treated with conventional business logic and business ethics. As a monopoly industry providing basic social services, it is not allowed to be completely commercialized in the logic of China's social operation.

Therefore, in the case of HowNet, it is necessary to adjust the policy to change it from pure commercial logic to state-owned enterprises with social welfare nature such as power grid, communication and railway. Or take him as a part of social public services, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology or the National Library and other relevant departments will start a new stove to provide such services. Take the master's thesis that people often go to HowNet to read. The master's thesis is the crystallization of everyone for three to five years. Originally, it was written to publicize my achievements and make academic contributions. Now HowNet gives you more than a dozen pieces, telling you that I will have the right to use your doctoral thesis in the future. In the future, if others want to see your academic performance, they will have to spend money to download it. Didn't I write my thesis just to spread academic knowledge? Now you have to pay?

What's even more ridiculous is that it costs money to download your own papers to HowNet. Didn't an old professor have this thing before? I think HowNet should be free of charge to the masses in order to spread knowledge, and only keep the duplicate check fee. If the research of Chinese Academy of Sciences is cutting-edge enough, it is completely unnecessary to use HowNet. I haven't used HowNet for more than ten years. In recent years, various free academic search engines or download software have been used to search for papers. If the research of Chinese Academy of Sciences is the frontier field that has not been published in the paper library, it may be time for China to surpass the United States in scientific research.