Is DataCite down?

DataCite current status is clear.

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Recent DataCite Outages and Issues

  • Dec 162024
    We're currently experiencing increased load on our services and are investigating the underlying cause and mitigation that we can take. This mostly appears to be affecting our search cluster, and therefore has a knock-on effect to queries and retrieval through DataCite Commons and some functionality in Fabrica. DOI Registration services should be unaffected, although may experience timeouts viewing content after registration.
  • Oct 312024
    Service slowness

    Lasted about 1 hour

    We're currently experiencing increased load on our services, we're investigating mitigation strategies. This mostly appears to be affecting our search cluster. Registration services should be unaffected, though may experience timeouts viewing content through frontend services / api search interfaces.
  • Oct 302024
    We've noticed an increase load on our services which is having an affect on returning search results in different places. We are investigating possible causes and attempting to compensate.
  • Mar 132024
    Services unavailable

    Lasted about 4 hours

    We are currently experiencing problems with our database services. This is affecting all DOI registration services and some search/indexing service responses. We are investigating as a matter of priority.

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About DataCite

DataCite is an international organization that offers a data citation and discovery service for research data. It provides persistent identifiers, metadata services, and a search interface to facilitate the easy discovery, access, and reuse of data. This ensures that research data is properly attributed and citable, promoting transparency and

Recent DataCite Outage and Status History

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DataCite Components

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The last outage for DataCite was on October 31, 2024 and lasted for about 1 hour.

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