Fee update: lowering and removing DOI registration fees in January 2027

We have some rather unusual news to share: Crossref fees are going down again. At its meeting in Paris earlier this month, the Crossref Board approved two further recommendations from the Resourcing Crossref for Future Sustainability (RCFS) project: effective 1st January 2027, we will reduce the majority of Content Registration fees for all 25,000 members, and remove fees for back-year records altogether. Content Registration fees haven’t increased in around 20 years, and this is the first significant change to them in that time—downwards.