# \#title\_transfer **URL:** https://community.crossref.org/tag/title-transfer/6.md [Latest](https://community.crossref.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.crossref.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.crossref.org/tags.md) --- ## [Helping your sponsored members with title ownership transfers](https://community.crossref.org/t/helping-your-sponsored-members-with-title-ownership-transfers/15949)
**Author:** [@collinks](https://community.crossref.org/u/collinks)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 June 2026 19:32 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/helping-your-sponsored-members-with-title-ownership-transfers/15949 "2026-06-12T19:32:21Z")
This post was originally an email to Crossref’s sponsors in late March. I’m reposting it to the Community Forum in case it can be useful for anyone else. The post assumes the reader is a representative of a Crossref spon… --- ## [How do I transfer my journal to another Crossref member/prefix? Easy! Use our title transfer request form](https://community.crossref.org/t/how-do-i-transfer-my-journal-to-another-crossref-member-prefix-easy-use-our-title-transfer-request-form/14511)
**Author:** [@collinks](https://community.crossref.org/u/collinks)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [25 September 2025 23:43 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/how-do-i-transfer-my-journal-to-another-crossref-member-prefix-easy-use-our-title-transfer-request-form/14511 "2025-09-25T23:43:40Z")
Crossref DOIs can have their ownership transferred from one Crossref member to another. This allows a new publisher to take over management of DOIs previously registered by another publisher, without the DOI strings them… --- ## [Can I register DOIs for articles in older issues of a journal? - Membership Ticket of the Month - September 2025](https://community.crossref.org/t/can-i-register-dois-for-articles-in-older-issues-of-a-journal-membership-ticket-of-the-month-september-2025/14473)
**Author:** [@collinks](https://community.crossref.org/u/collinks)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [15 September 2025 18:25 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/can-i-register-dois-for-articles-in-older-issues-of-a-journal-membership-ticket-of-the-month-september-2025/14473 "2025-09-15T18:25:49Z")
As a Crossref member, you are required by our membership terms to register DOIs for works that your organization publishes from the point that you join Crossref onward. You are also encouraged and empowered (but not comp… --- ## [Journal with existing DOI - can we change to another prefix?](https://community.crossref.org/t/journal-with-existing-doi-can-we-change-to-another-prefix/14333)
**Author:** [@Teresa](https://community.crossref.org/u/Teresa)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [18 August 2025 23:26 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/journal-with-existing-doi-can-we-change-to-another-prefix/14333 "2025-08-18T23:26:27Z")
Hello We are publishers of the following journal INVISIBILIDADES Revista Ibero-Americana de Pesquisa em Educação, Cultura e Artes Revista Invisibilidades – APECV Till now we used to deposit the DOIs of the issues usi… --- ## [What’s the effect of displaying unregistered DOIs on my Crossref membership application? - Membership Ticket of the Month - December 2024](https://community.crossref.org/t/what-s-the-effect-of-displaying-unregistered-dois-on-my-crossref-membership-application-membership-ticket-of-the-month-december-2024/12984)
**Author:** [@robbykharosalien](https://community.crossref.org/u/robbykharosalien)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [8 January 2025 21:22 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/what-s-the-effect-of-displaying-unregistered-dois-on-my-crossref-membership-application-membership-ticket-of-the-month-december-2024/12984 "2025-01-08T21:22:35Z")
Hello, I’m Robbykha from Crossref’s membership team. Happy New Year! Recently, we’ve had a couple of membership applications from organizations that have published content with DOIs already displayed, on an existing Cr… --- ## [DOI transfer and member ID field](https://community.crossref.org/t/doi-transfer-and-member-id-field/13056)
**Author:** [@benselme](https://community.crossref.org/u/benselme)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [27 January 2025 16:30 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/doi-transfer-and-member-id-field/13056 "2025-01-27T16:30:03Z")
Hi, We have transferred the ownership DOIs of several journals to other organizations (as they requested). But when checking those DOIs’ metadata, the member field still holds the ID of our organization. Is this field e… --- ## [Forget-me-not! How to avoid abandoning DOIs connected with previous title records when transferring a journal to a new publisher - Membership Ticket of the Month - November 2024](https://community.crossref.org/t/forget-me-not-how-to-avoid-abandoning-dois-connected-with-previous-title-records-when-transferring-a-journal-to-a-new-publisher-membership-ticket-of-the-month-november-2024/12822)
**Author:** [@collinks](https://community.crossref.org/u/collinks)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [10 January 2025 19:32 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/forget-me-not-how-to-avoid-abandoning-dois-connected-with-previous-title-records-when-transferring-a-journal-to-a-new-publisher-membership-ticket-of-the-month-november-2024/12822 "2025-01-10T19:32:18Z")
2025 approaches! Each December, many publishers message us with requests to transfer their journals to new publishers at the start of the new year. Transferring ownership of DOIs is a fundamental strength of Crossref’s … --- ## [Top tips for pain-free title transfer](https://community.crossref.org/t/top-tips-for-pain-free-title-transfer/2408)
**Author:** [@sallyjennings](https://community.crossref.org/u/sallyjennings)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 January 2022 11:03 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/top-tips-for-pain-free-title-transfer/2408 "2022-01-12T11:03:35Z")
This month, we’ve noticed that Santa brought many of you new titles over the Christmas period, as we’ve had lots of requests to transfer titles. Don’t forget that, after we’ve transferred a title over to you, there are s… --- ## [DOI ownership and multiple publisher owned journals](https://community.crossref.org/t/doi-ownership-and-multiple-publisher-owned-journals/5883)
**Author:** [@pdavis](https://community.crossref.org/u/pdavis)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [6 June 2024 10:42 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/doi-ownership-and-multiple-publisher-owned-journals/5883 "2024-06-06T10:42:03Z")
Sometimes members contact us as they are not able to update metadata against DOIs and they are getting an error “The user does not have permission to add or modify records for the prefix: 10.XXXX” in a submission log. T… --- ## [I’m an editor-in-chief; why can’t I request a title transfer for my journal? - Membership Ticket of the Month - May 2024](https://community.crossref.org/t/i-m-an-editor-in-chief-why-can-t-i-request-a-title-transfer-for-my-journal-membership-ticket-of-the-month-may-2024/5684)
**Author:** [@collinks](https://community.crossref.org/u/collinks)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [24 May 2024 17:39 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/i-m-an-editor-in-chief-why-can-t-i-request-a-title-transfer-for-my-journal-membership-ticket-of-the-month-may-2024/5684 "2024-05-24T17:39:24Z")
Hi, Collin from the Membership Support team here again! One great feature of DOIs is that they can be transferred from one owner to another without affecting the actual DOI string itself. For example, you might assume t… --- ## [Need new DOI for back issues before IJRSE Migrated?](https://community.crossref.org/t/need-new-doi-for-back-issues-before-ijrse-migrated/4022)
**Author:** [@ijrse](https://community.crossref.org/u/ijrse)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [15 January 2024 10:47 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/need-new-doi-for-back-issues-before-ijrse-migrated/4022 "2024-01-15T10:47:02Z")
Dear Sally, Following up on Gorky’s earlier queries, we wanted to gain clarity on the process involving the articles previously published by RSF. Is it imperative for us to unpublish these articles and then republish th… --- ## [DOIs with incorrect (outdated) URLs](https://community.crossref.org/t/dois-with-incorrect-outdated-urls/4233)
**Author:** [@enpiv](https://community.crossref.org/u/enpiv)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [26 October 2023 07:15 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/dois-with-incorrect-outdated-urls/4233 "2023-10-26T07:15:02Z")
Our journal Regular and Chaotic Dynamics in 2007 changed the publisher from Turpion to Springer and all articles published after 2007 can now be found at Springer website. But the articles published before 2007 by Turpio… --- ## [Prefix DOI JoAS trouble again](https://community.crossref.org/t/prefix-doi-joas-trouble-again/4273)
**Author:** [@airlan](https://community.crossref.org/u/airlan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [2 November 2023 01:57 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/prefix-doi-joas-trouble-again/4273 "2023-11-02T01:57:50Z")
Dear Crossref Please help us to fix our problem with the DOI Journal of Aquaculture Science (JoAS), Volume 8, Number 2. We also attached the file XML JoAS Vol. 8 No. 2. Because, starting from Vol. 8, No. 2, the prefix … --- ## [Chance Publisher](https://community.crossref.org/t/chance-publisher/4254)
**Author:** [@gurid](https://community.crossref.org/u/gurid)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [27 October 2023 12:42 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/chance-publisher/4254 "2023-10-27T12:42:08Z")
Dear Crossref Previous Publisher, an organization is close, so they can’t do Journal management anymore. They want management journal has new Publisher. New Publisher is agree to do that. I wonder how to chance because … --- ## ['Tis the season for title transfers](https://community.crossref.org/t/tis-the-season-for-title-transfers/2328)
**Author:** [@ifarley](https://community.crossref.org/u/ifarley)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [24 December 2021 18:43 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/tis-the-season-for-title-transfers/2328 "2021-12-24T18:43:31Z")
As our membership and technical support teams prepare for the many journals that transfer ownership/stewardship at the beginning of each year, I wanted to remind all reading this that DOIs are designed to be persistent. … --- ## [Lesson learned, the hard way: Let’s not do that again! - Crossref](https://community.crossref.org/t/lesson-learned-the-hard-way-let-s-not-do-that-again-crossref/2074)
**Author:** [@Crossref](https://community.crossref.org/u/Crossref)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [8 September 2021 17:00 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/lesson-learned-the-hard-way-let-s-not-do-that-again-crossref/2074 "2021-09-08T17:00:20Z")
We missed an error that led to resource resolution URLs of some 500,000+ records to be incorrectly updated. We have reverted the incorrect resolution URLs affected by this problem. And, we’re putting in place checks and … --- ## [Moving ISSN to a new Prefix](https://community.crossref.org/t/moving-issn-to-a-new-prefix/1153)
**Author:** [@BrunaErlandsson](https://community.crossref.org/u/BrunaErlandsson)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [23 October 2019 19:19 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/moving-issn-to-a-new-prefix/1153 "2019-10-23T19:19:36Z")
Hello @ifarley, I guess you can help us with this subject. My firends Danielle and Mariana, from Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia just became a member and got their own Prefix. Until now they were depositing DOIs fo… --- ## [Title transfer prefix 10.31799 (example)](https://community.crossref.org/t/title-transfer-prefix-10-31799-example/903)
**Author:** [@ifarley](https://community.crossref.org/u/ifarley)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [4 October 2018 19:56 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/title-transfer-prefix-10-31799-example/903 "2018-10-04T19:56:51Z")
Submitted by: Alexey Skalaban Sep 26 06:03 Dear Colleagues, Please assign ISSN 1684-8853 Information and Control Systems with prefix 10.31799 State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) Letter from them is a…