(25 Oct 2024) IFIS Publishing and CNKI have announced the launch of CNKI Food Science Focus, a specialized database dedicated to advancing food science research within China. This collaboration, marked by a formal signing ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 17, is set to provide the Chinese research community with access to cutting-edge global food science…
(3 Dec 2023) A newly established database represents China’s latest step towards open access publishing, but major obstacles remain if the country is to revolutionise its model of scholarly communication, experts said. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently launched PubScholar, an academic database that offers free access to about 170 million science resources, including over 87 million articles, more than 1 million…
(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…
(24 Jun 2022) China’s internet watchdog has launched a cybersecurity investigation into the country’s largest online academic research database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), intensifying Beijing’s scrutiny of the firm more than a month after it was put under an antitrust inquiry. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) initiated its investigation on the grounds that the privately-owned CNKI holds a large…
(13 May 2022) China’s market regulator had launched an antitrust investigation into the country’s largest online academic database, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). The State Administration for Market Regulation published the announcement on its website. It did not provide further details. CNKI, whose parent company is Tsinghua Tongfang 600100.SS, a Chinese state-owned software company…
The Chinese Academy of Sciences suspends access to CNKI journal articles because of its continuing steep rise in annual subscription payments. Over the past decade, at least six Chinese universities have suspended the use of CNKI because of the rapid rise in fees (19 Apr 2022) China’s top research organisation, the Chinese Academy of…
(2 Jan 2022) World’s biggest digital library of Chinese journals under pressure over copyright infringement. A high-profile case against China’s largest academic database has triggered heated debate over the future of open access publishing in the country. Zhao Dexin, a retired professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, won a copyright lawsuit…
(20 February 2019) China’s largest online academic library CNKI has again fallen under criticism of having a monopoly like its international counterparts, with experts and writers calling on government measures to boost the database’s social services. CNKI, or China National Knowledge Infrastructure, reportedly has over 200 million academic articles, making it the inevitable database for academic…