---
title: "Is Crossref Admin tool down? Crossref Admin tool status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/crossref/admin-tool"
description: "Live Crossref Admin tool status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Crossref Admin tool down?

**Answer:** No, Crossref Admin tool is not down. All Crossref Admin tool systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T05:00:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Crossref](/status/crossref.md) / Content Registration
- Official status page: https://status.crossref.org
- About: The Crossref admin tool (https://doi.crossref.org/), also known as the deposit queue or the submission system, where members deposit metadata, manage their accounts and more.

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Admin tool

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-16 | [Content Registration Outage and Instability](https://stspg.io/46rxfj1t2ctb) | incident | 2d 22h |
| 2026-09-09 | [Content registration processing delays today](https://stspg.io/9vplgpd3ds0f) | minor | 4h 13m |
| 2026-08-09 | [Admin tool - doi.crossref.org - returning a 503 status code](https://stspg.io/f2t010pbpmxs) | critical | 48m |
| 2026-07-14 | [Login issues affecting Crossref services](https://stspg.io/2ltkmbdvw68x) | major | 40m |
| 2026-05-08 | [Bug identified, possibly resulting in failed submissions. Emergency maintenance scheduled.](https://stspg.io/qmklgv6l5vgg) | minor | 2h 38m |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/crossref/admin-tool
- Service: /status/crossref.md