(30 Mar 2023) On 16 March librarians and academics at universities and research institutions in several countries received notices that some access to China’s largest database of academic papers would be ‘temporarily’ curtailed from 1 April. The notifications arrived without clarifying how long this would be.
These notifications, in particular, affected four databases of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) – PhD and masters theses and dissertations, its database on conference proceedings, the National Populations Census of China, and the statistical yearbooks database, which the notifications said would be suspended pending “regulatory review” of its cross-border services.
University World News has the full report here.
The Financial Times has coverage on this issue as well, see here (subscription required).
