Editorial

We are pleased to announce several innovations at SComS. In July, SComS was added to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This gives our young open access journal more visibility and connects us even better with the growing community dedicated to developing open access journals and making scientific knowledge accessible. In addition, there are technical innovations on the Submission Platform. Authors can now directly enter their ORCID ID as part of the submission process and link their papers to their unique researcher ID. In case you are not familiar with ORCID, you can find more information on https://orcid.org. Let us now turn our attention from future issues to this issue of SComS. It contains four articles in the General Section, a Thematic Section entitled “Critical perspectives on migration in discourse and communication,” and two book reviews in the Reviews and Reports Section. In addition, the Community Section contains the summary of Sina Blassnig’s dissertation, which was awarded the 2021 Dissertation Prize of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM). On a sad occasion, the issue also contains an obituary of the communication and media scientist Michael Schanne.

Overview of NCBI's SARS-CoV-2 submission process and the metadata required v2

PURPOSE: This protocol explains the metadata requirements for the following two protocols: 1. SARS-CoV-2 NCBI submission protocol: SRA, BioSample, and BioProject Step-by-step instructions for establishing a new NCBI laboratory submission account and for creating and linking a new BioProject to an existing umbrella effort. SARS-CoV-2 raw data submission to SRA (Sequence Read Archive) and metadata to BioSample. Users can modify this protocol to just create a BioSample with no linked raw data. 2. SARS-CoV-2 NCBI consensus submission protocol: GenBank Required: established BioProject and BioSamples Submit SARS-CoV-2 assemblies to NCBI GenBank, linking to existing BioProject, BioSamples, and raw data. Version history: V4: Updated metadata templates to reflect updated PHA4GE templates (V3) plus minor text edits.

Publishing an academic paper: basics of the submission process

Publishing an academic paper and going through the submission process can be unfamiliar and daunting. This article will provide a basic overview of where to start, how to search and scrutinise journals to find the right one for your work, checking guidelines and the finer things such as whether or not to pay for your publication, getting everything ready, what to expect during the process of submission, how your manuscript is reviewed and how a decision is made. Familiarising yourself with the basics of the submission process will make it less intimidating as you will know what to expect and how to prepare.

Introduction to Section II

In addition to the papers associated with the OLC Accelerate and Innovate conferences, we also have a selection of studies that have been reviewed and accepted for publication through our regular submission process. The journal continues to receive hundreds of submissions and the Online Learning Consortium appreciates the opportunity to serve as a nexus for researchers in the field. These studies investigate deep learning processes, motivation, compassion, and a wide range of other student, faculty and institutional issues in both k-12 and higher education online settings.

Erratum to: Effects of a novel dye containing toothpaste versus regular fluoridated toothpaste for supragingival biofilm reduction in patients with chronic gingivitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Rath, A., Chong, J.N., HR, P., Teo, B., Zhen, N., & Yin, O. (2021). Dentistry 3000 2021; 9(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/d3000.2021.117

The name of one of the authors was misspelled by the author during the submission process as well as a name of a collaborator in the acknowledgement section. The author’s name Chong Junning was corrected to Chong Jun Ning. In the acknowledgment section Mr. Che Vern was corrected to Mr. Yeoh Chin Vern. The original manuscript has been updated to reflect the aforementioned changes.

Potentials of Augmented Reality in a BIM based building submission process

The digital transformation in the construction industry, which is also referred to as Construction 4.0, is gaining impact in recent years. BIM as the central point for model-based planning and communication is at the centre of this development. This paves the way for the implementation of further technologies, such as augmented reality (AR) or artificial intelligence (AI) in the construction process. However, the submission process currently receives little attention in the BIM project cycle, even though it has a significant impact on a building project. There is a huge potential for the application of BIM and AR in the building submission process. BIM allows partly automatic compliance checks to be performed. The BIM model and the results of these checks can be used as basis for the AR model. This paper investigates an application for AR in a BIM submission process. Here we show that especially the plan check process and hearings in the approval process can be improved and sped up by combining BIM and the visualization technology of AR. In this process, AR can support the building authority in checking the compliance with building regulations. Additionally, non-experts involved often have problems grasping the planned building project just based on the technical 2D plans. In this case, AR helps them to visualise the impact of the planned project and allows for better judgement. Use-cases are presented, showing strategies to improve the plan check process and assist the building authority as well as the persons involved, for both experts as well as non-experts. Finally, the requirements, technical implementations, and effects of an AR application for the plan check process are described. An AR-supported plan checking process can vastly improve the presentation of technical content. This leads to better understanding and more transparency for non-experts. Because AR is relatively easy to use, it might become ubiquitous not only to experts, but also to the general public.

A Call for a More Efficient Submission Process

This commentary argues that the manuscript submission process is needlessly complicated and bothersome and would benefit from user experience research to simplify the author guidelines and to add design features that minimize mistakes.

RETRACTED: Pengaruh motivasi dan lingkungan kerja terhadap kinerja karyawan PT. Poetra Jaya Sukses Mandiri di Batam

RETRACTION TO:Daulay, N., & Hikmah, H. (2020). Pengaruh Motivasi dan Lingkungan Kerja Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan PT Poetra Jaya Sukses Mandiri Di Kota Batam. Jurnal Kajian Manajemen Bisnis, 9(1) (doi: https://doi.org/10.24036/jkmb.10806000This article has been retracted by Publisher based on the following reason:The Editor of Jurnal Kajian Manajemen Bisnis found the double publication in the article publishing due to article's content similarity published in http://ijcoreit.org/index.php/coreit/article/view/148Daulay, N., & Hikmah, H. (2020). Pengaruh Motivasi dan Lingkungan Kerja Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan PT Poetra Jaya Sukses Mandiri Di Kota Batam. Jurnal Ilmiah Core IT: Community Research Information Technology, 8(1).One of the conditions of submission of paper for publication in this journal is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process