In recent days, nearly 90 year-old retired professor zhao deok-kyung of the university of finance and economics and law, china, has had a dispute with the chinese co-optor network in the field of dissertation。
The reason for this stems from the unauthorized recording of more than 160 of his papers by the network, which not only receives no fees for writing, but also for downloading their own papers。
The angry old man brought china's network to court and eventually won over $700,000. Following his defeat, professor zhao's dissertation was dropped and no longer entered。
Mr. Old's advocacy is not alone。
On 12 december, according to the yangtze daily newspaper, the writer chen jinhong also indicated that he was ready to file a complaint against the chinese network, which had recorded more than 300 articles of his own。
On 18 december, the 80-year-old youth scholar from wuhan, who had received more than 100 articles, also sent a message to the network in the hope that it would be proactive in reaching solutions。
There was a response from staff, and there were thousands of authors on the network, and there was no effort to do so. This is a historical problem and a problem for the whole industry, which cannot be solved in a day or two and needs to be gradually overhauled。
Freezing three feet is not a day cold。
On twitter, there are numerous complaints about the abuse of the internet, and the phenomenon of “the knowledge of the world is too long” is beginning to emerge. The public media also pointed directly to the problem: the daily people's journal commented that the internet needed to be cleaned up, with more public goods and less copper smell, and that the online business of “making eggs from chickens” needed to change。
So, why are you so proud? Is its market position suspected of being monopolistic? What can we replace it with
"what's a net?"
In 2019, the superstar dr. Tien tien ying said, “what is a net of knowledge” and opened up the false images of the intellectuals of stars and tore open the mouth of the net of knowledge。
So, what's a net
Back in history, the knowledge network was created for academic purposes。
In the early 1990s, computer and computer technology became widespread, and attempts were made within industry to retrieve literature using cd-rom storage resources。
These technologies have evolved but have failed to address the link between one or two of the literature resources, and once they have been retrieved by scholars on cd-rom, they still need to be accessed through paper-based resources。
At the beginning of 1995, wang myung-lang, general manager of qinghua information systems engineering, beijing, was inspired by the analysis of the data format of the full-text cd-rom "women in china " , proposing the "page display + full-text retrieving technology, which can be used for full-text retrieval, original browse and long-term preservation of the electronic file database system " , which is the precursor of the know web。
As china's internet is beginning to provide access to society, internet access, fox searches and new wave portals have been set up, accelerating penetration and penetration, increasing the frequency with which people use the internet and transforming the internet。
On 18 june 1999, the network launched the china journal network, a web-based periodical resource service in full text form, which initially transformed full-text retrieval from cd-rom to the web and entered the full-text web search age。
By the end of 2002, the network had consolidated more than 4,000 leading academic journals, creating the country's first high-quality full-text search and evaluation database. In 2006, the network was identified as an authoritative literature search tool for academic journals。
Moreover, the china information network focuses not only on the development of domestic information resources, but also on establishing links with large foreign publishers. The overseas documentation resources are screened and integrated according to the needs of domestic users, using their own platforms and service systems for the issuance of foreign databases online. In 2010, the network began building a global marketing platform for chinese academic literature。
To date, it is not only the only academic electronic journal in the country that currently authorizes the official publication of doctoral thesis, but also the electronic publisher of numerous core academic journals。
This has not only enabled it to enjoy the support of numerous scientific institutions, but has become the largest database of academic papers in china. Moreover, academic users rely heavily on knowledge-based research and dissemination. It is also an academic platform for international and national exchanges。
The knowledge network is a mandatory place for academic researchers。
Of course, the knowledge network also has a “business” dimension。
In the financial paper, the co-owner's shares (6001000. Sh) indicated that the co-owners' network, which is their grandson's company and holds 100 per cent of the shares, is mainly involved in internet publishing and service, and has developed the “cnki” portal, which provides users with a range of products such as the chinese academic journal database and the chinese master's thesis database。
According to the 2020 financial paper, the corporate business income of the co-responsible network is rmb 1,168 million, and the net profits attributable to shareholders in the parent company are approximately rmb 193 million, with a māori ratio of 53. 93 per cent。
Whether it is technology or business model, the network is evaporating under the operation of the chinese side. Over the past two years, more than a billion dollars have been charged annually. A leading science news site, scienceaIt is a global “unbelievably profitable business model”。
Authors cost up to $400
What about the internet
First, with regard to the determination of market dominance, as of 2019, the chinese network database of full-text periodicals recorded 3964 exclusive and only authorized periodicals, accounting for 43 per cent of our total. Of these, 778 are core periodicals, or approximately 42 per cent of all core periodicals; 194, or 64 per cent of the total number of top three periodicals, include the top three in all disciplines。
Compared to the wip consultation and several hundred monographs of data, it is clear that the chinese knowledge network has a significant intellectual property advantage. The number and quality of their exclusive periodicals is far higher than that of other operators in the same field。
Second, knowledge networks that do not produce knowledge have become the largest knowledge monopolies, reaping huge benefits from other people's labour。
According to the red star capital bureau, the doctoral thesis of liu chunbo at wuhan university, the opinion guide, was downloaded 22,871 times at a cost of $25. In theory, the paper could bring about $570,000 in revenue to china's network. However, liu can only get a $400 internet charge card and a $100 cash bonus。
Currently, the download of a master's thesis at icn costs $15, the doctor's dissertation costs $25, and the author's writing costs up to a maximum of 400 icn + 100 cash prizes。
Thirdly, starting in 2009, our higher education institutions have generally stipulated that all graduate dissertations of university students should be reviewed on the internet, but not for graduation. It is also normal for students to change and double-check three or four times. The latest offer for recosting is $198. While the unit price of downloading a paper is not high, there are more than one literature on which to draw much to pay for。
Finally, technology makes knowledge cheaper and monopolies more expensive. The network not only monopolizes the resources of academic dissertations but also exploits the opportunities to monopolize the resources of academic evaluation。
Thesis is the main basis for the evaluation of teachers ' examinations in higher education. There are more stringent schools, which provide for the issuance of a paper in the popular journal (general, periodicals not included in the catalogue of core periodicals, which can be called “universal”). A paper in issue c is given at a rate of 0. 5, with a total score of more than 2. 5 in four years. There are also schools that use data such as the citation of the papers as a test, and internet intake is almost a prerequisite for high citation。
For higher education institutions, the knowledge network is also a regular subject. At the end of 2013, 10 provincial priority higher education institutions in yunnan province were discontinued. However, on the basis of the needs of teachers and students, yunnan has had to negotiate with the chinese network of knowledge. The first round of the offer for yunnan national university was $450,000, while china sensei offered $650,000, which was finally compromised by yunnan national university at a price of $480,000。
The academic literature database, from initial service academic research to china knowledge network, raised fees not only for individual users but also for users of university groups. With the increased reliance of universities and scientific institutions on commercial academic literature databases, some commercial academic literature databases monopolize the intellectual wealth created by authors and paper-based academic journals。
Universities that are highly dependent on databases are vulnerable in their confrontation with databases that occupy core periodical resources. Compromise is the only option for universities in this resource-sharing game。
Who's going to replace ichino
Human knowledge should be shared, not monopolized. There is only one solution — with competitors joining。
First, academic resources are public goods and, therefore, the profits of academic resources cannot be exclusive to a development agency。
Academic resource-sharing platforms can be established between institutions of higher learning to enable students to freely access and download, to return to the academic nature, while gradually recovering copyrights in the knowledge network. Universities of higher learning are both producers and users of academia and should not be extended to a middleman。
The providers of content, such as periodicals, are upstream of the china knowledge network and downstream are universities, government agencies, public libraries, businesses, etc. It is highly unreasonable that periodical articles are used free of charge by data providers and that databases are charged for money。
In addition, in addition to knowledge networks, universities and students can choose large knowledge platforms such as the all-china, the whip and others。
With regard to the high cost of the examination of academic papers, the national academic database is more than a web-based one, and whip and mangang are also partners in some schools。
At present, all eligible students are given the opportunity to carry out a one-time, free-of-charge, check-up, which will be given twice to students in cooperative schools. The weakening of the market value of the knowledge network is also one of the measures to address the monopoly of knowledge networks, for example, in relation to unreasonable determination of repetition rates and the appropriate increase in the pass rate of repetition rates。
At the same time, public-interest knowledge platforms, such as the nih and the national science foundation of the united states, could be used to create a public-interest knowledge platform that would make all papers published under the auspices of the national public fund project publicly available and downloaded free of charge, so as to avoid such disadvantages as unfair prices for commercial academic literature databases, uneven academic levels of recording, single profit models and oligopolistic tendencies。
Academic resources are a true public asset, and their services should truly reach the socially disadvantaged groups that are beyond the reach of various fee-paying services. Academic articles should not be used exclusively by ivory tower scholars and should be disseminated to the public through more rational means。
At the same time, some commercial database companies responded positively, emphasizing pro bono attributes. For example, the european academic publishing corporation has introduced hierarchical open access measures to download free of charge some socially valuable papers; even academic social networking sites, such as researchgate, which keeps them free of charge, have emerged, not through a single user fee model, but through a diversified approach of advertising。
