Registering a new journal with Crossref

Hello︖ Thank you for accepting our request and sending a reply. We would like to have the DOI number of an international journal for our Defense University’s own journal “Tsats”. Please help us in the easiest possible way︖ Thank you very much.

Regards:
Research and Innovatio Division

Dear Crossref team,

This journal has a website https://mndu.gov.mn/?page_id=3304. But Don’t have Article landing page URL* for each article’s level.

Best regards
Gana

Dear Gana,

I hope you are doing well. It does not belong to the University of the Free State nor have MoU with the institution.

Dear Crossref team,

I am fine thanks. Please explain your email to me. What is mean of University of the Free State and MoU with the institution

Best regards
Gana

Hi all, I just split this topic off from a longer one where @RID originally posted.

@ufst I suspect that you were all about this post because you had previously contributed to the longer topic, but Gana was actually talking about @RID not your journal.

Hi there @RID

We note that you seek to register DOIs with Crossref for your organisation’s journal. We can certainly help you with this. Are you able to provide us with the full title and ISSN for your journal, together with the full name of its publishing institution, please? We’ll then be able to guide you on the best Crossref membership option for your organisation.

Thank you

Sal

Dear Assistant Editorial Office,
I need help, I want DOI for our university journal and also DOI, for our group owned journal.
What are the requirements? Do I need a letter from my university?
Regards
Ngonso

Hello,

Full name is “Journal of the Shalamar Medical and Dental College”

Online ISSN: 2789-3677 and print ISSN: 2789-3669

Publisher : Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan

With Regards

Prof Adeela Shahid

Hello,

This is not belongs us, check once

Thank you

Any answer for me
Ngonso

Hello

This is my journal Science Act and scienceact.com, ISSN: 3115-7262

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Hello.
Our organization is the National Defense University of Mongolia. The name of the journal for which we would like to register the DOI in Crossref is “Tsats”. The ISSN of the journal is 2313-8076. The cover of the journal has been attached.
Thank you

Regards:
Research and Innovation Division

(attachments)

New nuur_TSaTS.pdf (191 KB)

Dear Gana,
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to collaboration MoU

This partnership marks an important step toward strengthening cooperation, enhancing the quality of education, research, and community service, and creating meaningful contributions to both institutions and society.

regard,

Dr. Tri Panca Titis Arbiansyah, M.Si

Hi Sai,

Per your request, find below are the details of our journals looking for registering for DOI:

1) Name of the Journal : International Journal of Computers Electrical and Advanced Communications Engineering (IJCEACE)
ISSN : 2250-3129.
Year of Registration: 2012

2) Name of the Journal: International Journal of Research Sciences and Advanced Engineering (IJRSAE)
ISSN : 2319-6106
Year of Registration: 2013

Hi there

Thanks very much for confirming these details.

We note that you seek to register DOIs with Crossref for the journal Stats (ISSN: 2313-8076). We can certainly help you with this. Here is some general information on Crossref membership, and on how to apply.

Background information

You need to be a member of the Crossref organisation in order to get a DOI prefix so you can register DOIs and metadata about your published content with us. We then share this metadata with the scholarly community through our free, open APIs.

Membership of Crossref is open to organisations that produce professional and scholarly materials and content - If your content is likely to be cited in the research ecosystem or considered part of the evidence trail, then you are eligible to join.

You need to apply in the name of the organisation that is responsible for the long-term stewardship of your content (i.e. the National Defense University of Mongolia), rather than in the name of your individual journal, for example. You’ll then be able to use this single, central member account to register DOIs for all the content that your organisation publishes.

As a member, you have obligations to your fellow members and the wider scholarly community. These include registering your content with us (so registering a DOI, a resolution URL, and a lot of other metadata), keeping that metadata up-to-date, and displaying your DOIs on a unique landing page for each of your content items. This landing page needs to include full bibliographic information for the specific item you are registering, plus a way to access the full text. You also need to ensure that you use DOIs to identify any works in your reference lists. When you join, you agree to these membership terms.

In return, you join a community of publishers who are all linking to each other persistently through their references. Your metadata is shared with hundreds of organisations in the scholarly ecosystem, and you are able to take advantage of Crossref services (content registration, the Funder Registry, Similarity Check, Cited-by and Crossmark). And, of course, you’re able to create a persistent identifier for each citable object that you publish.

Membership options and fees

Independent membership
Independent members pay an annual membership fee, which is tiered depending on your publishing revenue/expenses. As a guide, the lowest tier is US$275 per year for organisations with annual publishing revenue lower than US$1m*. If you don’t have revenue for your publishing, we look at your publishing expenses. These fees are the same for both commercial and not-for-profit organisations.

*From January 1 2026, our lowest membership fee tier will drop from US$275 per year for organisations with annual publishing revenue lower than US$1m to US$200 for organisations with annual publishing revenue lower than US$1,000. Find out more about this change here: https://doi.org/10.64000/cvvj8-tax10.

A pro-rated membership fee for the remainder of the current year is due before your account can be activated, meaning you’ll receive an invoice soon after applying, and then each and every subsequent year in January. You are responsible for paying these annual membership fees each year unless you actively cancel your membership.

In addition to the membership fee, there are also one-off fees for each item you register with us (but no further charges to update the metadata associated with these records once they are registered). We send out quarterly content registration invoices in arrears. Content registration fees vary depending on content type and whether the content is current or backfile but, as a guide, the cost to register a single, current journal article is US$1.

We can only accept payment in US$. You can find more information on our fees page.

Membership via a Sponsor
We know that cost and technical capabilities can be barriers to participation, so we offer a sponsorship program for organisations in some regions. Members who join via a sponsor have the same benefits and obligations as other members, but they have someone to support their membership. Sponsors pay one membership fee for all the members that they work with, and they also pay content registration fees on behalf of their members. They also provide technical and local language support for their members.

Sponsors are able to charge for their services, so it’s important to discuss your agreement with your sponsor before joining. Find out more about working with a sponsor.

How to join and what happens next

Once we receive your application, it usually takes a week or so to complete the process, depending on how many extra questions we have to ask you.

If you are applying as an independent member, we send you a pro-rated membership fee invoice to cover your membership fee for the remaining months of the current year. Once you have paid your prorated membership fee, we provide you with a DOI prefix.

If you are working with a sponsor, we provide you with a DOI prefix as soon as we have answers to any outstanding questions.

Once you have your Crossref DOI prefix, you then use this prefix to create full DOIs for your content, and register it with us by providing the URL for the content and a lot of other metadata. This can be done via an online form, or by submitting XML - you can read more about the options here. If you are working with a sponsor, they may register the content on your behalf - do make sure you understand the agreement with them.

To apply to join, please read through this page carefully and select the relevant option at the bottom of the page.

Do let us know if you have any further questions.

Best wishes

Sal

Hello,

This is not belong us. check once please

Hi Ngonso

Thank you for your message. We note that you seek to register DOIs with Crossref both for a journal published by your university, and for a separate, group-owned journal.

To register DOIs for your university journal, your university will need to apply for Crossref membership. This will result in the creation of a Crossref member account in the name of your university, through which DOIs may be registered for all your university’s published content. The name of your Crossref member account (i.e. your university name) will automatically be listed as the publisher within the metadata associated with the DOIs you register through this account.

For this reason, you may not be able to register DOIs for your group-owned journal under the same Crossref membership, as the publisher name shown within the metadata for this journal’s DOIs would then be your university name, not your group’s name. If your group is part of your university, and would be happy for the university’s name to be listed as publisher, you could register DOIs for both journals via a Crossref member account in the university’s name.

You don’t need a letter from your university in order to apply, but it would be worth consulting others at your university to determine:

a) whether or not the university holds an existing Crossref membership (in which case you could register DOIs for your journal(s) through that;

b) the most appropriate contacts to specify for your new member account (such as the Billing contact who will be responsible for payment of Crossref’s fees).

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Sal

Hi Adeela

Thank you for your message. I can see that we have an existing registered Crossref member account in the name of Shalamar Medical & Dental College, Lahore (DOI prefix: 10.53685), under which the Journal of Shalamar Medical & Dental College - JSHMDC is registered.

Just let me know if I may assist with anything further.

Best wishes

Sal

Hi Hossein

Thank you for your message. If you’re interested in joining Crossref in order to register DOIs for Science Act (ISSN: 3115-7262), you might find the following general information on Crossref membership helpful.

Background information

You need to be a member of the Crossref organisation in order to get a DOI prefix so you can register DOIs and metadata about your published content with us. We then share this metadata with the scholarly community through our free, open APIs.

Membership of Crossref is open to organisations that produce professional and scholarly materials and content - If your content is likely to be cited in the research ecosystem or considered part of the evidence trail, then you are eligible to join.

You need to apply in the name of the organisation that is responsible for the long-term stewardship of your content (i.e. Science Act Publishing House), rather than in the name of your individual journal, for example. You’ll then be able to use this single, central member account to register DOIs for all the content that your organisation publishes.

As a member, you have obligations to your fellow members and the wider scholarly community. These include registering your content with us (so registering a DOI, a resolution URL, and a lot of other metadata), keeping that metadata up-to-date, and displaying your DOIs on a unique landing page for each of your content items. This landing page needs to include full bibliographic information for the specific item you are registering, plus a way to access the full text. You also need to ensure that you use DOIs to identify any works in your reference lists. When you join, you agree to these membership terms.

In return, you join a community of publishers who are all linking to each other persistently through their references. Your metadata is shared with hundreds of organisations in the scholarly ecosystem, and you are able to take advantage of Crossref services (content registration, the Funder Registry, Similarity Check, Cited-by and Crossmark). And, of course, you’re able to create a persistent identifier for each citable object that you publish.

Membership options and fees

Independent membership
Independent members pay an annual membership fee, which is tiered depending on your publishing revenue/expenses. As a guide, the lowest tier is US$275 per year for organisations with annual publishing revenue lower than US$1m*. If you don’t have revenue for your publishing, we look at your publishing expenses. These fees are the same for both commercial and not-for-profit organisations.

*From January 1 2026, our lowest membership fee tier will drop from US$275 per year for organisations with annual publishing revenue lower than US$1m to US$200 for organisations with annual publishing revenue lower than US$1,000. Find out more about this change here: https://doi.org/10.64000/cvvj8-tax10.

A pro-rated membership fee for the remainder of the current year is due before your account can be activated, meaning you’ll receive an invoice soon after applying, and then each and every subsequent year in January. You are responsible for paying these annual membership fees each year unless you actively cancel your membership.

In addition to the membership fee, there are also one-off fees for each item you register with us (but no further charges to update the metadata associated with these records once they are registered). We send out quarterly content registration invoices in arrears. Content registration fees vary depending on content type and whether the content is current or backfile but, as a guide, the cost to register a single, current journal article is US$1.

We can only accept payment in US$. You can find more information on our fees page.

Membership via a Sponsor
We know that cost and technical capabilities can be barriers to participation, so we offer a sponsorship program for organisations in some regions. Members who join via a sponsor have the same benefits and obligations as other members, but they have someone to support their membership. Sponsors pay one membership fee for all the members that they work with, and they also pay content registration fees on behalf of their members. They also provide technical and local language support for their members.

Sponsors are able to charge for their services, so it’s important to discuss your agreement with your sponsor before joining. Find out more about working with a sponsor.

How to join and what happens next

Once we receive your application, it usually takes a week or so to complete the process, depending on how many extra questions we have to ask you.

If you are applying as an independent member, we send you a pro-rated membership fee invoice to cover your membership fee for the remaining months of the current year. Once you have paid your prorated membership fee, we provide you with a DOI prefix.

If you are working with a sponsor, we provide you with a DOI prefix as soon as we have answers to any outstanding questions.

Once you have your Crossref DOI prefix, you then use this prefix to create full DOIs for your content, and register it with us by providing the URL for the content and a lot of other metadata. This can be done via an online form, or by submitting XML - you can read more about the options here. If you are working with a sponsor, they may register the content on your behalf - do make sure you understand the agreement with them.

To apply to join, please read through this page carefully and select the relevant option at the bottom of the page.

Do let us know if you have any further questions.

Best wishes

Sal

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Sally Jennings,

Can you tell me if Metadata Manager is working or if you have created another platform with the same purpose?

We had a registration at: https://www.crossref.org/metadatamanager/

It identified whether the information in the articles was correct.