? ? I think the Chinese Academy of Sciences can completely replace HowNet with Wanfang and VIP.
As friends all know, there is a news circulating on the Internet recently that the Chinese Academy of Sciences has stopped using China Knowledge Network. According to online news, the renewal fee of HowNet is nearly 10 million, which makes many colleges and universities overwhelmed. I stopped using it on the 20th, and it still works. Because the Academy of Sciences has not yet reached a unified procurement cooperation with China HowNet. Now Wanfang and VIP have been opened and can be used.
According to media reports, on April 17, a teacher in charge of the implementation of this matter in the Library Department of Chinese Academy of Sciences confirmed that the renewal fee of "10 million-level" network transmission and the suspension of HowNet access were true, and the major research institutes of Chinese Academy of Sciences were actively responding to the impact of HowNet's suspension of subscription. "Since April 20th, 2022, China HowNet database has been deactivated. In the future, it will be replaced by Wanfang and VIP, and files that cannot be found can be passed by file. "
Friends who often consult information know that HowNet was initiated by Tsinghua University and Tsinghua Tongfang, and was founded in June 1999. HowNet is actually the concept of national knowledge infrastructure, which was put forward by the World Bank in 1998. CNKI project is an information construction project aimed at realizing the dissemination, enjoyment and value-added utilization of knowledge resources in the whole society. Through industrialized operation, we will provide the whole society with the richest knowledge and information resources and the most effective platform for knowledge dissemination and digital learning.
At present, after years of construction, HowNet has integrated more than 5,400 domestic journals, more than 540 newspapers, domestic doctors and doctoral dissertations, conference papers, standards, patents, industry yearbooks, industry laws and regulations, scientific and technological development trends and other large amounts of data and related materials. HowNet has built a "CNKI Digital Library" with the largest full-text information in the world, providing knowledge and information resources for the whole society. As friends all know, HowNet is the only academic electronic periodical unit in China that can officially publish doctoral dissertations with the approval of the state. To graduate, graduate students must upload their papers to HowNet and check them by themselves. Therefore, every graduation season, friends will inevitably go online to check their graduation thesis.
From the above introduction, friends all know that HowNet has its value, but it can't avoid its own high fees. The friends all know that the Chinese Academy of Sciences is a financial appropriation unit, and they need to pay nearly 10 million service fees for HowNet every year, so they are overwhelmed and choose to open Wanfang and VIP instead. I think the Chinese Academy of Sciences can completely replace HowNet with Wanfang and VIP: Wanfang and VIP are both famous academic data websites in China, for example, Wanfang Database is a professional academic database in China, with the same name as HowNet; Whip. Com is the founder of China periodical database construction, and has been devoted to the development and application of massive data.
? In a word, the emergence of HowNet makes it easier to search for documents and reduces the workload of researchers to some extent. The charge is really understandable. However, we should also see that behind its high fees, some researchers have also become inert and dependent on it. In my opinion, abandoning the expensive HowNet and choosing Wanfang and VIP can not only reduce the high cost, but also reduce the dependence of some researchers on online search tools, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone; At the same time, I think that while developing market-oriented services, HowNet should also practice the original intention of "efficient sharing of knowledge resources in the whole society" and fill in the shortcomings of inclusiveness.