Publications

Smith, V.S. (In press)

E-publishing descriptive taxonomy: the convergence of taxonomic journals and databases.

In “Descriptive Taxonomy: The Foundation of Biodiversity Research”. Eds M. Watson & C. Lyal. Published CUP. Expected first half of 2010.

In 'Identification handbook of the insects and arachnids of Greenland' (J. Böcher, ed.) University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen. N.b. This chapter has been in press for many years. The editors are still waiting for some final chapters before the volume will be published.

Smith, V.S. (2010)

Systema Naturae 250 - The Linnaean Ark (book review)

Systematic Biology. 2010; doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syq038.

Smith, V.S. and Palma, R.L. (2010)

In Memoriam: Robert C. Dalgleish, Nigel Hill, Mitchell Durno Murray and Robert LC Pilgrim.

Abstracts from the Fourth International Conference on Phthiraptera (ICP4), Urgup, Turkey. Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi. Volume 34, Supplement 1. p4. [PUBLISHED ABSTRACT ONLY]

Smith, V.S., Roberts, D. and Rycroft, S. (2010)

Small pieces loosely joined: Getting louse research on the Web

Abstracts from the Fourth International Conference on Phthiraptera (ICP4), Urgup, Turkey. Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi. Volume 34, Supplement 1. p6. [PUBLISHED ABSTRACT ONLY]

Smith, V.S. (2010)

Lice on the web: a workshop on the new Phthiraptera website

Abstracts from the Fourth International Conference on Phthiraptera (ICP4), Urgup, Turkey. Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi. Volume 34, Supplement 1. p70. [PUBLISHED ABSTRACT ONLY]

Stefka, J. and Smith, V.S. (2010)

Hitchhikers' guide to the Galapagos: population structure and coevolution in lice and mites parasitizing Galapagos mockingbirds

Abstracts from the Fourth International Conference on Phthiraptera (ICP4), Urgup, Turkey. Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi. Volume 34, Supplement 1. p83. [PUBLISHED ABSTRACT ONLY]

Smith, V.S. and Palma, R.L. (2010)

Louse Taxonomy, Anatomy and identification workshop

Abstracts from the Fourth International Conference on Phthiraptera (ICP4), Urgup, Turkey. Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi. Volume 34, Supplement 1. p 152. [PUBLISHED ABSTRACT ONLY]

Blagoderov, V. Brake, I., Penev, L., Roberts, D., Rycroft, S., Smith, V.S. (2010)

Streamlining taxonomic publication: a working example with Scratchpads and ZooKeys.

Zookeys. 2010. 50 (2010) Special Issue: 10.3897/zookeys.50.539.

Penev L., Roberts D., Smith V.S., Agosti D., and Erwin T. (2010)

Taxonomy shifts up a gear: New publishing tools to accelerate biodiversity research (Editorial)

Zookeys. 2010. 50 (2010) Special Issue: 10.3897/zookeys.50.539.

Blagoderov, V., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T. & Smith, V. (2010)

Report on trial of SatScan tray scanner system by SmartDrive Ltd.

Unpublished report on Nature Precedings. Posted 24 May 2010; hdl:10101/npre.2010.4486.1.

Penev L, Agosti D, Georgiev T, Catapano T, Miller J, Blagoderov V, Roberts D, Smith VS, Brake I, Ryrcroft S, et al. (2010)

Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples.

Zookeys. 2010. Special Issue 5027 06 2010. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.538.

Roberts, D and V.S. Smith (2010)

Driving UK Research. Is copyright a help or a hindrance? A perspective from the research community. A collection of essays collated and published by the British Library. Launched by the British Library at the Wellcome Trust, London on 22 July, 2010.

Smith, V.S, D. Duin, D. Self, I. Brake & D. Roberts (2010)

Motivating Online Publication of Scholarly Research Through Social Networking Tools

Webcentives: Incentives and Motivation for Web- Based Collaboration . Conference Proceedings paper delivered at COOP2010, The 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems on 18 May, 2010 as part of a workshop titled Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based Collaboration.

Smith, V.S., Rycroft, S.D., Harman, K.T. Scott, B., Roberts, D. (2009)

Scratchpads: a data-publishing framework to build, share and manage information on the diversity of life

BMC Bioinformatics. 2009, 10 (Suppl 14): S6doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S6.

Smith, V.S. (2009)

Data publication: towards a database of everything

BMC Research Notes, 2: 113. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-113

Smith, V.S, Rycroft, S.D., Roberts, D. (2008)

Scratchpads: Getting Biodiversity online, redefining publication.

Proceedings of BNCOD 2008 "Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modeling and managing biodiversity knowledge". Cardiff University, UK, 10th July 2008. Officially available online at: http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod/SmithEtAl.pdf

Smith, V.S. (2008)

The New Taxonomy

Systematic Biology. 57, 4: 660-663

Roberts, D. Rycroft, S.D., Brake, I., Harman, K., Scott B. & Smith, V.S. (2008)

Getting Taxonomy onto the Web.

The Systematist. 30: 3-10.

Smith, V.S., Light, J.E. and Durden, L.A (2008)

Rodent louse diversity, phylogeny, and cospeciation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru.

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 95:598-610.

Mayo, S. J., Allkin, R., Baker, W., Blagoderov, V., Brake, I., Clark, B., Govaerts, R., Godfray, C., Haigh, A., Hand, R., Harman (2008)

Alpha e-taxonomy: responses from the systematics community to the biodiversity crisis.

Kew Bulletin. 63:1-16.

Beccaloni, G.W. and Smith, V.S. (2008)

Celebrations for Darwin downplay Wallace’s role.

Nature. 451: 1050.

Roberts, D., Rycroft, S.D., González, M., and Smith, V.S. (2007)

Scratchpads: what are they?

European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy News (newsletter article).

Cohn, D.L., Smith, V.S., Pizarro, M., Jones-Engel, L., Engel, G., Fuentes, A., Shaw, E., Cortes, J. (2007)

Pediculosis in Macaca sylvanus of Gibraltar.

Veterinary Parasitology. 145(1-2):116-9.

Smith, V. S., Dalgleish, R.C., & Cruickshank, R. H. (2007)

Fossil lice reconsidered - Erratum.

Systematic Entomology. 32: 196.

Smith, V. S. (2007)

Phthiraptera

In 'McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology,' McGraw-Hill Professional, New York.

Dalgleish, R. C., Palma, R. L., Price, R. D., Smith, V. S. (2006)

Fossil lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) reconsidered.

Systematic Entomology 31: 648-651. n.b. See also the erratum above.

Lane, R.S., Kucera, T., Barrett, R.H., Hasty, J.M., Wu, C. and Smith, V.S. (2006)

Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) as a host ofixodid ticks, lice and lyme disease spirochetes (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato) in Californian state parks.

Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 42: 759-771.

Smith, V.S (2005)

DNA Barcoding: Perspectives from a "Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy" (PEET) Debate.

Systematic Biology. 54 (5): 841-844.

Reed, D.L., Smith, V.S., Rogers, A.R., Hammond, S.L., Clayton, D.H. (2004)

Molecular genetic analysis of human lice supports direct contact between modern and archaic humans.

Public Library of Science (PLoS) - Biology. 2 (11): e340.

Koh, L.P., Dunn, R.D., Sodhi, N.S., Colwell, R.K., Proctor, H.C., Smith, V.S. (2004)

Species co-extinctions and the biodiversity crisis.

Science. 305, no. 5690. pp. 1632-1634.

In (Gale Research Staff, ed.)Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol 3 (Insects), Gale Group, USA. pp. 249-257.

Page, R.D.M., Cruickshank, R.H., Dickens, M., Furness, R.W., Kennedy, M., Palma, R.L., Smith, V.S. (2004)

Phylogeny of the "Philoceanus-complex" seabird lice (Phthirpatera: Ischnocera) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 633-652.

Smith, V.S. (2004)

Lousy phylogenies: Phthiraptera systematics and the antiquity of lice.

Proceedings of the Meeting on Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders (Dresden, September 2003). - Entomologische Abhandlungen 61: 150-151.

Smith, V.S. (2004)

Lousy Lists (Book review of "The Chewing Lice: World Checklist and Biological Overview" by R. D. Price, R. A. Hellenthal, R. L. Palma, K. P. Johnson, D. H. Clayton).

Systematic Biology 53 (4) 666-668.