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 "ten 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. "
As for when to resume the visit to HowNet, the teacher said that it is still uncertain. "At least there should be no such plan this year."
In fact, this is not the first time that HowNet has been interrupted by high subscription fees.
In recent years, HowNet has been boycotted by colleges and universities due to frequent price increases. From 20 12 to 202 1 10, at least six colleges and universities announced that they would suspend the use of HowNet, all because the increase of HowNet was too high.
However, after a period of suspension, due to the uniqueness of HowNet database resources and the difficulty in integrating its resources into other databases, most universities continue to cooperate with HowNet under various pressures.
201610/0, Wuhan university of technology issued a notice to stop using CNKI because of the abnormal increase in renewal price, but ordered again one month later.
On March 20 16, Peking University announced that "the price of HowNet database is too high, and the service may be interrupted at any time".
20 18 12, Taiyuan university of technology issued a notice in official website, and on 20 19, access to "CNKI China hownet series database" was suspended.
The 2020 financial report shows that the annual revenue of HowNet reached165438+600 million, with a gross profit margin of 53.93%. Since 2005, the gross profit margin of HowNet has been above 50%, and even reached above 70% at the highest time.