CNKI can purchase paper books online.
HowNet is a concept of national knowledge infrastructure, proposed by the World Bank in 1998. The CNKI project is an information construction project with the goal of realizing the spread, sharing and value-added utilization of knowledge resources throughout society. Initiated by Tsinghua University and Tsinghua Tongfang, it was founded in June 1999.
In May 2019, the "Research Integrity and Academic Standards" online learning platform was officially launched on China National Knowledge Infrastructure.
Online Publishing
Through cooperation with the journal industry, publishing industry and various content providers, CNKI has developed into a collection of journals, doctoral theses, master's theses, conference papers, An internationally leading online publishing platform that integrates newspapers, reference books, yearbooks, patents, standards, Chinese studies, and overseas literature resources. The center website updates more than 50,000 documents daily.
Based on the massive content resource value-added service platform, anyone and any institution can build their own personal digital library on CNKI and customize the content they need. More and more readers use CNKI as a platform for daily work and study.