Crossref membership (member 49493)

IIT Madras is a Crossref member in its own right — member 49493, primary name "Indian Institute of Technology Madras", location Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, DOI prefix 10.70002, 11 current DOIs as of 2026-09-01. This is a fact about the institution, recorded as a membership; the Crossref REST API contract is Crossref's and is not saved here.

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aid: iit-madras:crossref
name: Crossref membership (member 49493)
description: IIT Madras is a Crossref member in its own right — member 49493, primary name "Indian Institute
  of Technology Madras", location Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, DOI prefix 10.70002, 11 current DOIs as
  of 2026-09-01. This is a fact about the institution, recorded as a membership; the Crossref REST API
  contract is Crossref's and is not saved here.
humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/49493
tags:
- Registry
- DOI
- Scholarly Metadata
properties:
- type: Registry
  url: https://api.crossref.org/members/49493
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/iit-madras-conformance.yml
x-operator: registry
x-operator-basis: api.crossref.org is an identifier registry IIT Madras is registered in, not a vendor
  platform running under its name. The membership is evidenced by a dereferenceable member record.