In fact, the dominance of HowNet cannot be separated from the attention and support of the state.

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 the "CNKI Digital Library" with the largest full-text information in the world, providing knowledge and information resources for the whole society.

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 themselves. Therefore, every graduation season, friends will inevitably go online to check their graduation thesis.

In fact, in order to prevent academic plagiarism, colleges and universities have stipulated the red line of paper repetition rate. In order not to touch the red line and affect graduation, these students will go to HowNet to take the self-study exam in advance, which is expensive. Little friends all know that the construction of HowNet can not be separated from the attention and support of the state. At the beginning of its establishment, its predecessor was "China Academic Journals (CD-ROM Edition) Retrieval and Evaluation Data Specification", which was promulgated and implemented as a national standard and established the authority of HowNet. Later, the Ministry of Education issued policies and regulations on requiring undergraduates and postgraduates to take graduation thesis exams, which further strengthened the dominant position of HowNet in China and made HowNet monopolize the source of academic papers from the source.

At present, although there are databases such as Wanfang VIP, HowNet is still dominant, and it is in an absolute dominant position compared with them. The state attaches great importance to the policy effect of knowledge website construction, which makes it possible to collect academic resources of HowNet. The requirements of relevant departments for duplicate checking of graduation thesis have formed the service market of duplicate checking of HowNet, which makes HowNet the only one.

In short, the monopoly resources and monopoly position formed with the support of national policy dividends determine the dominance of HowNet. I feel that while developing market-oriented services, HowNet should also practice the original intention of "efficient sharing of knowledge resources in the whole society" and pay attention to inclusiveness.