The CrossRef is a non-profit membership organization that exists to make scholarly communications better and research outputs easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.

The DOI prefix allotted for BSSS Institute of Advanced Studies is 10.51767. Membership of Crossref ensures easy identification, traceability and access to reliable and trustworthy e-content making developed and authentic electronic resources and content available to all.

CrossRef functions with the ideology of adapting new and innovative technologies which can augment the reachability and accessibility of scholarly research works with swiftness and accuracy. It ensures the promotion, facilitation and cooperative use of new technologies so that scholarly research work can reach out to the maximum at the click of a button. CrossRef's principle mandate is to establish a reliable and valid citation linking platform for scholarly and academic information in electronic mode. The CrossRef platform does not carry any complete texts, rather it facilitates linkages and connections through its CrossRef Digital Object Identifiers (CrossRef DOI), which are tagged to article metadata supplied by the contributing publishers. The outcome is a trustworthy linking system which can connect and give the researcher access to a journal article by clicking in on the reference citation in a journal.

In the early years of millennium 2000, some of the leading names in publishing industry came forward to set up a non-profit organization that could meet the urgent scholarly and research needs of the authors .The prominent names in this regard are- Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (PILA), which operates CrossRef. The Board of Directors today comprises representatives from AAAS (Science), AIP, APA, Elsevier, IEEE, IOP, Informa UK, Wolters Kluwer Health, Nature, Sage, Springer, Thieme, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press and Wiley-Blackwell.

Since the DOI will get allocated after 60 days only, hence the third party can claim the copyrights infringement during this period.