ABSTRACT
An Enhanced Publication is a publication that is enhanced with research data as evidence of the research, extra materials to illustrate or to clarify or post-publication data like commentaries and ranking. Some publishers offer one or two of these categories with their official publications. Elsevier and Blackwell publications can have research data with the official publication, and Nature publications can have research data and also extra material, such as movies. It is surprising that Nature and BMC publish extra materials like movies separately from the publication, without even a link between these related objects. The reader of the article misses out on the movie, and the viewer of the movie remains unaware of the article. Only one publisher, PLoS, provides all these three enhancement services for their publications. In particular, the option to add post-publication data is rarely supported by other publishers. As a contrast, some repositories offer the option of adding commentaries, ranking, trackbacks, or linking publication and research data.
