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Vesta Scholar Solutions
Vesta Scholar enhances the value of services offered through publishing companies, societies, and associations by helping prospective authors overcome challenges in communicating their research findings. Having navigated the choppy waters of the publishing industry for three decades, Nancy Vesta, the founder of Vesta Scholar, understands author struggles and presents practical resources that organizations can offer to improve author writing skills and confidence. Moreover, she understands the publication-process bottlenecks that frustrate editors, authors, and readers. Through Vesta Scholar, she advises authors and editors to promote quality research, elevate stakeholder profiles, and increase author reach.
Mission
Through the decline of print media, the rise of open access, and most recently, the introduction of artificial intelligence, the challenges for authors have remained the same: lack of training in research writing and the publishing process. Nancy is using her experience and partnering with colleagues to help organizations educate authors and editors on writing, revising, and reviewing research manuscripts.
When researchers understand the expectations of publishers, the number of manuscripts poorly matched to journals can be reduced. When editors and peer reviewers effectively communicate with authors, more promising manuscripts can be affordably and effectively revised to meet publication standards.
Most important, when the expectations of publishers, editors, reviewers, and scholars are aligned, the industry gaps that have enabled the entry of predatory journals and unprincipled actors in the academic space can be closed.
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Vesta Scholar Solutions was established to promote the publication of quality research by helping mitigate author pain points and publishing pipeline chokepoints.
About
Nancy J. Vesta, MS, the founder of Vesta Scholar Solutions, is committed to advancing the free flow of ideas and scholarly research. After earning a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she stumbled into a gig that changed her life: editing correspondence courses. Committed to attending graduate school at Kansas State University, she reluctantly left her editing job. However, after passing her preliminary exams for a PhD in biology, she chose to take a master’s degree instead and establish herself as a professional editor.
Throughout her 30-year career as a developmental, language, copy, and quality control editor, she has edited thousands of published journal articles, academic manuscripts, and scholarly books on a variety of science, social science, and business topics.
Moreover, she has managed journal and book workflows from the editing to the production and printing stages, coordinated manuscript intake and review processes, coached novice authors, established and maintained author guidelines, facilitated the transition of print manuscripts into accessible online articles, and presented writing and editing strategies through association conferences, webinars, and blogs.
With the heart of a teacher, Nancy considers helping authors reach their communication goals to be the most rewarding experience of her longstanding career.
