On 17 March 2026, we experienced an outage that affected DOI resolution for Crossref DOIs and the deposit of metadata records by Crossref members. In this summary, we outline what happened, the impact on our community, and the steps we are taking to strengthen our systems and processes as a result.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.crossref.org/blog/doi-resolution-and-deposit-outage-on-17-march-2026