China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) unavailable

The China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database platform available at http://eng.oversea.cnki.net is temporarily unavailable. Users have been receiving the "504 Gateway Time-Out: Server didn't respond in time" error message when attempting to download articles from the following databases:

China Academic Journals (CAJ)
Century Journals Project (CJP)
China Doctors/Masters Dissertations (CDMD)
China Core Newspapers (CCND)
Conference Proceedings of China (CPCD)
China Reference Works Online (CRWO)
China Yearbooks Fulltext Database (CYFD)
China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CSYD)

Service to the simplified Chinese interface for all databases at http://gb.oversea.cnki.net/kns55/ is functioning as normal.

East View is working with the database producer to resolve this problem, and we will send out a notice as soon as access returns to normal.

Posted 12/5/2013 at 12:32 PM