Citation and republication

Citing a document

Every document carries a stable URL that will not change, a publication date, and a revision date where one applies. Cite the revision you read.

Documents published under the house byline are cited to the institution:

The Khyat Institute, “The UPI levy arrives at a threshold proposed in 1999”, Chetavani 001, 16 September 2026, https://khyatinstitute.org/chetavani/001-upi-mdr-threshold

Guest contributions are cited to their authors, whose names appear on the document.

Every page also carries machine-readable citation metadata — Google Scholar tags and a schema.org ScholarlyArticle record — so a reference manager should be able to read a document without the fields being typed in by hand.

Why the URL will not change

A citation that rots is worthless to the person who made it. URLs here carry no dates in the path for briefs and working papers, so a document does not read as stale, and they are never rewritten after publication. If a document must move, the old address will redirect rather than disappear.

Documents are corrected in place rather than reissued at a new address, which is why the revision date exists. The correction note on the document, and the entry in the corrections log, together record what changed.

Republication

Documents published here may be republished in full, by anyone, without asking. No permission, no fee, no form. That includes commercial news media, in print and online.

They are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-ND 4.0). Three conditions follow from it, and they are the only ones:

1. Do not alter the text. Headlines, standfirsts and the body run as published. A document’s claims are sourced to primary documents, and an edited version attributed to this Institute would carry an authority it had not earned. Trimming for length is an alteration; if space is the problem, run an extract and link to the rest.
2. Credit The Khyat Institute, and the named author where a document carries one rather than the house byline.
3. Link to the original URL. Published URLs never change, so the link will not rot, and a reader who follows it reaches the sourced version along with any correction issued since.

A suggested line: “This article was originally published by The Khyat Institute,” linking the institute’s name to the document.

Nothing here restricts quotation, criticism or scholarly use, which need no licence at all.

Translation

Translation into any language is welcome and also needs no permission, notwithstanding the no-derivatives term, which is waived for translation alone. Two requests, neither of them a condition: credit the translator, and write to hello@khyatinstitute.org so the translation can be linked from the original.

Corrections travel with the document

Errors are corrected in place, with a dated note, and logged at /corrections. A publication that has reproduced a document is asked to carry a correction when one is issued against it. This is not a licence condition and will not be enforced as one. It is the reason the link back matters: it is the only route by which a reader of the copy can reach the corrected original.