An enhanced publication is a publication that is enriched with three categories of information:
1. research data (evidence of the research)
2. extra materials (to illustrate or clarify)
3. post-publication data (commentaries, ranking)
Enhanced Publication components
The parts of an enhanced publication should be selected carefully. Publishers and repositories should set up a checklist for objects forming part of an enhanced publication. More specifically objects should have:
1. a unique global persistent identifier;
2. a facility for the link to be resolved;
3. a time stamp;
4. a common file type (for future use);
5. a universal numeric fingerprint for data sets;
6. “Cite as” information;
7. a quality good enough for preservation; and
8. it should be legal to publish the object.