Right now is the season for the defense of graduation thesis in colleges and universities, and the duplication of the thesis has once again become the focus of heated discussion.

Recently, a senior student at a university in Wuhan discovered that the free CNKI account provided by the school was stolen.

After inquiring, it was learned that the paper checking opportunity attached to his account was used as a commodity to be sold in a certain treasure shop.

　　Paper check is to put the written paper into a professional resource library and compare it with other papers to ensure that there is no plagiarism, plagiarism, etc.

Currently, most colleges and universities use the China HowNet Duplicate Checking System.

　　However, many recent graduates told the Qianjiang Evening News reporter that as there is no free opportunity to check the duplicates of CNKI, in order to ensure that the checking rate of their graduation thesis meets the standard, they want to buy from the internet, but Chinet does not have an official sales channel. , The online duplicate check service is difficult to distinguish between true and false, very helpless.

　　After communicating with graduates, shopkeepers and many other people, the reporter of Qianjiang Evening News·Hours discovered that there are many chaos behind the paper checking service.

Chaos one

Ran into a copycat site

They almost never graduated

　　Xiaoyu studied finance at a general undergraduate college in Jiangxi and is currently an intern at a securities company in Hangzhou.

A month ago, he was still in the quagmire of the paper review.

　　"Our school requires the duplication rate of graduation thesis to be less than 25%." Xiaoyu said, in mid-April, he searched for "thesis duplication" on the Internet, and many duplication sites popped up. "Basically, just register and follow. You can get a free double check opportunity."

　　Xiaoyu chose to perform simultaneous tests on three or four different free websites, and the final test report results were similar, about 33%.

According to the test report, Xiaoyu made a weight reduction modification. At the end of April, on the day he submitted his graduation thesis to the school, he was still a little worried.

For this reason, early that morning, he went to an online store to search for "paper check" again, and found that there are many shops claiming to be able to check papers on HowNet. The price range is very different. The cheap one is only 10 yuan, and the more expensive one. Thousands of dollars.

　　He chose a company with relatively good ratings and reviews, and spent tens of yuan. After payment, the store quickly sent a link to a web page that read: "Academic Misconduct Literature Detection System" in a prominent place.

After testing, the repetition rate is 4%.

　　Xiaoyu was very happy and felt that the thesis was okay, so he immediately submitted his graduation thesis to the school.

However, the school's duplicate check result far exceeded Xiaoyu's expectation-"28%".

Only then did Xiaoyu realize that what he had spent money to buy was a fake system.

Fortunately, the school has many opportunities to submit graduation thesis before the specified time.

　　In retrospect, Xiaoyu was a little scared, “Graduation is a major event. Once the rate of re-checking is delayed, it will be too unjust. But we can’t find a regular CNKI account at all.”

　　On some social networking sites, reporters saw that many graduates are also facing similar distresses as Xiaoyu.

On April 8th, a master's degree graduate posted on Zhihu, saying, “I almost didn’t graduate because of the duplicate check report!” He once purchased a thesis duplicate check service for more than 300 yuan on an e-commerce platform, and the result showed the duplicate check rate. 13%.

But when I submitted my thesis to the school for duplication, the duplication rate became 38%.

He was so anxious that he couldn't fall asleep for a while because of the heavy papers.

Chaos II

HowNet's Duplicate Checking Account Flows to Black Market

Someone profited illegally

　　At present, the papers check the market is mixed.

In addition to some false propaganda of a certain online store, using the copycat system to deceive consumers, there are no shortage of merchants peddling CNKI's duplicate check services.

　　However, the HowNet platform announcement shows that the HowNet academic misconduct detection system has always only provided services to institutions, and is limited to the detection of documents of the unit.

So, where did the duplicate check accounts of these merchants come from?

　　After searching, the reporter of Qianjiang Evening News·Hours joined a QQ group called "Research and Weight Reduction of Papers". There were nearly 300 people in the group.

The group leader stated that his teacher has a HowNet account and can perform a duplicate check on HowNet papers on his behalf.

　　In the process of lobbying reporters to purchase its services, the group owner revealed: “A teacher’s account is very expensive, and CNKI has checked it strictly. If it is found out, it is a title, and there may be more severe punishments.”

　　In addition to peddling duplicate checking services in the group, she also sold it simultaneously on an online store, with a price tag of 273 yuan. During the price negotiation, the group owner said that the lowest price was 253 yuan, and she claimed that she only made 10 to 20 yuan.

　　At the same time, the Qianjiang Evening News · Hourly News reporter found that there is a dedicated person in the group to provide weight reduction services, and the charge is 55 yuan per thousand characters.

The clerk said that he is a journal editor, but he has been doing paper weight reduction part-time for four years.

　　The reporter sent a private message to the top several CNKI papers in a certain online store in terms of sales, indicating that there are a large number of CNKI accounts for sale on hand.

Subsequently, a store owner added the reporter's WeChat and asked to purchase an account.

　　During the conversation with the store, the reporter learned that in the popular graduation season, the minimum purchase price for a CNKI review opportunity is 130 yuan.

In a certain online store, the price of undergraduate papers ranges from 180 to 260 yuan, which is an increase of 50 to 100 yuan compared with last year.

　　In the course of the transaction, the store did not ask the reporter about the source of the account, but only asked to check the duplicate check report of CNKI. This actually exposed the grey area of ​​the paper duplicate check transaction.

HowNet

Respond to

Fight against embezzlement, theft and reselling

There will be new actions this year

　　In response to the chaos of the CNKI's paper review service, the staff of CNKI's legal department responded to the Qianbao·Hour News reporter: This system was launched in 2008. The purpose of its development is to provide a tool for institutions with management qualifications to help them improve. Efficiently detect academic misconduct by students, researchers or creators.

This system does not provide personal services, otherwise it will help the copyists to wash their own works, in order to counter the supervision of the management agency, contrary to the original intention of the development of this system.

　　In response to the chaos of scalping, the staff member said that CNKI has been paying attention to it for many years and has been investigating and cracking down on it.

"In order to track down, we also paid for the e-commerce platform to purchase a lot of accounts, and we have also issued warnings and corresponding penalties to some institutions."

　　"Network monitoring data and investigation results show that criminals mainly used the management loopholes of legally used institutions and illegal reselling by individual managers to steal or steal accounts to make big profits." In April last year, CNKI revealed or reselled accounts for mismanagement. Yes, once again increase the investigation and punishment efforts, for example, the annual subscription users cancel the annual service model, and re-approved the annual service quantity.

Other users reduce the total amount of services in the current year, or suspend testing services for a period of time, etc.

　　The staff said that in order to strengthen account management and combat illegal misappropriation, theft and reselling, CNKI will have new actions this year.

Comment immediately

Graduates, there is no need to check

　　During the college graduation season, "have you checked it twice?" became the most frequently mentioned sentence among students before the thesis defense.

　　Duplicate checking has become a hard demand, so a chaotic trading market for duplicate checking accounts has emerged.

　　In fact, in retrospect, if every graduation thesis is an "original version" paper, if students think carefully, write carefully, have their own thinking, and conduct their own experiments. It is an "original version" of the paper, then there is no need at all. Duplicate check".

　　Therefore, behind the duplicate check, in a sense, it is actually a reflection of the quality of the students' papers.

There are indeed a small number of students’ papers that were copied and pasted together.

As a result, what was originally a duplicate check method used by the school to prevent plagiarism and plagiarism has now become a routine for students to "cope" in advance.

　　The market for duplication checks is chaotic and needs to be addressed; there are many demands for duplication checks, and more need to be managed from the source.

　　Reporter Zhang Rong Liu Qiaoyan