'School of Authors' is a website from Media Education Research Journal Comunicar, indexed in main international data bases, that complements other websites in Spanish, English and Portuguese. It is written and edited, basically, by the Editorial Board of 'Comunicar' and it aims to offer different sources, for manuscript submissions in scientific journals in a planned and strategic manner. It is intended to make authors think about scientific information management for publishing scientific manuscripts in high impact journals.
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- The meta-labels, describing electronic documents
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