Current Status

All Systems Operational

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Components

Public REST API

Operational

Crossref website

Operational

deliberately-unreliable server

Operational

Plus REST API

Operational

Open Funder Registry

Operational

Admin tool

Operational

Handle servers

Operational

Polite REST API

Operational

Crossref support

Operational

Plus OAI-PMH

Operational

Demo Auth

Operational

Retraction Watch

Operational

OAI-PMH

Operational

Metadata search

Operational

Monitoring of iThenticate can be seen at https://turnitin.statuspage.io.

Operational

XML Snapshots

Operational

Annual public data files

Operational

Test admin tool

Operational

XML API

Operational

Participation reports

Operational

Recent Incidents

Investigating an outage

major

Jun 16, 2026 · resolved Jun 16

Participation Reports, the web deposit form, and other small apps and reports have been fully operational again since about 08.30am UTC.

Degraded service on REST API

minor

May 29, 2026 · resolved Jun 5

This incident has been resolved.

Test admin tool - test.crossref.org - returning 503 status code errors after today's deployment

critical

May 14, 2026 · resolved May 14

This incident has been resolved.

DOI Error Reports (Non-registered DOIs reported by end users for prefix…) were not sent between May 11th and June 10th 2026

none

May 11, 2026 · resolved May 11

Due to a configuration change, we stored, but did not send out, DOI Error Reports starting on May 11th 2026. The problem was reported, identified, and a fix was implemented, on June 10th 2026. All DOI Error Reports from the outage period are intact and will be emailed shortly.

Bug identified, possibly resulting in failed submissions. Emergency maintenance scheduled.

minor

May 8, 2026 · resolved May 8

This incident has been resolved and the emergency maintenance has been completed.

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