1.5 yuan per 1,000 words CNKI began to provide individual users with duplicate checking services
Changjiang Daily News (Reporter Li Yuying) In the early morning of June 12, 2022, Tongfang Knowledge Network (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. issued an announcement on the official website of CNKI and the WeChat public account of CNKI: From now on, CNKI will provide individual users with an announcement. Provide direct check service.
The "FAQs on CNKI's Personal Duplication Checking Service" published at the same time by CNKI's WeChat official account explained related issues.
Specific content: All individual users can log in to CNKI’s only official website for personal duplication checking service (https://cx.cnki.net) to use the document duplication checking service; the pricing of the personal edition refers to the prevailing charging method by the number of characters in the market. It is set at 1.5 yuan per thousand words, which is not higher than the price of similar products in the mainstream market; CNKI continues to provide postgraduates with free dissertation checking services through the postgraduate training management institution (graduate school), and the number of free times has increased from 1.5 per capita to per capita. 3 times; the repetition rate detection function and results of the personal version and the institutional version are the same; the papers submitted by the individual are only stored on the dedicated server for duplication checking, and will be automatically deleted after 30 days and cannot be recovered; personal duplication checking service and academic misconduct generation is not directly related.
CNKI has issued an announcement stating that the check "can only be used for the management process of the institution" and "never sells to any individual".
CNKI’s explanation for providing duplication checking services to individual users today is: “In the past, CNKI only provided duplicate checking services to institutions, ignoring the actual needs of individual users such as self-checking and checking newness of academic standards, which objectively created a black market. And the problem of high price. In fact, duplication checking cannot replace the judgment of academic value, and the repetition rate of words has no direct relationship with the quality of the paper.”
On December 7, 2021, the Changjiang Daily Newspaper Group exclusively reported that "more than 100 papers were collected by CNKI without authorization, and all the ninety professors won the lawsuit and received compensation of more than 700,000 yuan" after the publication on the all-media platform, which triggered continuous social progress. The concern has become an annual public opinion event. Many college students reported that the repetition rate of papers inquiring through off-campus channels was unbearable due to the high fees, and they sighed that "the world has been suffering from knowledge for a long time".
On May 13, 2022, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued a message: According to the previous inspection, CNKI has been investigated for suspected monopolistic behavior in accordance with the law.
On the same day, CNKI issued an "announcement" stating that it will take this investigation as an opportunity to conduct in-depth self-examination, comprehensive self-examination, thorough rectification, operate in compliance with laws and regulations, innovate the development model, and assume the social responsibility of China's knowledge infrastructure.
On June 8, CNKI issued a notice saying that various business rectifications are currently being carried out, and all sectors of the society are welcome to submit comments and suggestions on the future development of CNKI.