Direct answer
Research Release, in this source contract, is limited to the following inspected scope. Persistent version and correction relationships. Reasons for retraction and durable notice requirements. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Source contract
Accept a source only after identity, version, locator, rights, claim scope, and boundary checks all pass.
Metadata or topical similarity alone cannot satisfy passage-level support.
Applied scope: Persistent version and correction relationships. Reasons for retraction and durable notice requirements.
Definition and operating context
The canonical concept owner is maha-research. This route may apply evidence; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
This property may publish research objects, machine-readable provenance, reproduction protocols. It must not publish sales copy or unsupported interpretation.
Evidence and exact locators
Versioning — Versioning: corrections, retractions, and version relationships. Establishes: Persistent version and correction relationships.
Retraction Guidelines — Sections 2–4: when to retract and form of notices. Establishes: Reasons for retraction and durable notice requirements.
What the evidence does not establish
Crossref guidance does not define Maha release authority.
COPE guidance concerns scholarly publication ethics, not software deployment.
This route must not claim sales copy.
This route must not claim unsupported interpretation.
Related definitions and applications
same-topic-application: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/research-release/definition
graphEdges: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/source-identity/definition
same-topic-application: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/research-release/fixture
same-topic-application: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/research-release/relationships
property-home: https://research.mahastrategies.com/
same-topic-application: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/research-release/failure-mode
Questions this page can answer
What does Research Release mean in this bounded context?
Research Release, in this source contract, is limited to the following inspected scope. Persistent version and correction relationships. Reasons for retraction and durable notice requirements. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Which inspected sources support this source contract answer?
Versioning (living guidance inspected 2026-09-05), at Versioning: corrections, retractions, and version relationships, supports persistent version and correction relationships. Retraction Guidelines (version 2, November 2019), at Sections 2–4: when to retract and form of notices, supports reasons for retraction and durable notice requirements.
What does the evidence not establish?
Crossref guidance does not define Maha release authority. COPE guidance concerns scholarly publication ethics, not software deployment. Property boundary: This route may apply evidence; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
Which definition or canonical owner must be read first?
This page is the local maha-research definition for its topic. Related applications may depend on it but may not silently redefine it.
What source, policy, implementation, or release change would require revision?
Re-evaluate this page when a cited source, locator, governing instrument, local implementation, or canonical definition changes. Publication also requires a matching exact-revision review and active canonical release.