Crossref incident
Dropped sessions when adding contributors to Metadata Manager registrations
Crossref experienced a minor incident on December 2, 2025, lasting 30d 23h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating Dec 02, 2025, 07:54 PM UTC
Several members have reported that their sessions have been dropped (screen turning white) when attempting to add contributor metadata to their registrations within Metadata Manager - https://www.crossref.org/metadatamanager/. Members facing this issue should register their metadata without contributors and then use the new record registration form - https://manage.crossref.org/records - to import those records so their contributors can be added to the metadata. Please contact our support team - [email protected] - if you have questions. - IF
- resolved Jan 02, 2026, 07:06 PM UTC
We have deprecated - https://www.crossref.org/deprecated/ - our previous Metadata Manager tool. Members who previously made use of Metadata Manager to register their metadata should move to our new form - https://manage.crossref.org/records. Please contact our support team - [email protected] - if you have questions. - IF