Regardless of the master's or doctor's degree, there is usually a page of authorization in the graduation thesis, asking the author to authorize the university to use the thesis. Therefore, if HowNet is not authorized by the author of the paper and the university itself does not cooperate with HowNet, then the doctoral thesis of the university will not be uploaded to HowNet for public.
HowNet is an enterprise, not a state department, and there is no possibility of compulsory acquisition of university dissertations. This transaction must be voluntary by both parties, and whether to upload HowNet is the independent choice of colleges and universities. Some universities have their own databases of academic papers. For example, Wanfang Database was built by Peking University itself, so naturally few papers were uploaded to China HowNet controlled by Tsinghua.
There are also some colleges and universities that are unwilling to cooperate with HowNet because it is too expensive. Every graduation season, students are complaining about HowNet: HowNet is black-hearted, expensive and expensive, which is a well-known fact in academic circles. Cost checking is a hot topic in graduation season every year. However, after so many years of scolding, HowNet charges more and more expensive, and finally: I will never move if you are surging.
Students without income sources can't afford to use HowNet, and many colleges and universities can't afford to use it, and there are many complaints. 20 16, 16, Wuhan university of technology suspended the subscription of hownet because of its high price. In March of the same year, Peking University also suspended the subscription of HowNet because of its excessive price increase. A quick search shows that there are many announcements that universities and libraries suspend access to HowNet.