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. [And mid 2011 I am still waiting!!!]
Smith, V. S. (In press)
Phthiraptera (parasitic lice).
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., and Penev, L. (2011)
Collaborative electronic infrastructures to accelerate taxonomic research
Zookeys. 2011. 150 (2011) Special Issue: e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science 1–3, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2458.
Smith V.S., Rycroft S., Brake I., Scott B., Baker E., Livermore L., Blagoderov V., Roberts D. (2011)
Scratchpads 2.0: a Virtual Research Environment supporting scholarly collaboration, communication and data publication in biodiversity science
Zookeys. 2011. 150 (2011) Special Issue: e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science 53–70, doi:10.3897/zookeys.150.2193.
Brake I., Duin D., Van de Velde I., Smith VS, Rycroft S. (2011)
Who learns from whom? Supporting users and developers of a major biodiversity e-infrastructure
Zookeys. 2011. 150 (2011) Special Issue: e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science 177–192, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2191.
Jan Štefka, Paquita Hoeck, Lukas F Keller and Vincent S Smith (2011)
A hitchhikers guide to the Galápagos: co-phylogeography of Galápagos mockingbirds and their parasites
Lyubomir Penev, Daniel Mietchen, Vishwas Chavan, Gregor Hagedorn, David Remsen, Vince Smith and David Shotton (2011)
Pensoft Data Publishing Policies and Guidelines for Biodiversity Data
Published online by Pensoft on 25th of May 2011. Full article is available here. See also the associated press release by GBIF.
Smith, V.S., Ford, T., Johnson, K.P., Johnson, P.C.D., Yoshizawa, K., Light, J.E. (2011)
Multiple lineages of lice pass through the K-Pg boundary
Biology Letters. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0105
Jessica E. Light, Vincent S. Smith, Julie M. Allen, Lance A. Durden, David L. Reed (2010)
Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)
Roberts, D. and V.S. Smith (2010)
ViBRANT - Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy
In Tools for identifying biodiversity: progress and problems. Proceedings of the International Congress, Paris, September 20-22, 2010. Edited by Pier Luigi Nimis and Régine Vignes Lebbe. p54.
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)
Copyright
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
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. (2004)
Phthiraptera: Chewing and sucking lice.
In (Gale Research Staff, ed.)Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol 3 (Insects), Gale Group, USA. pp. 249-257.
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.
Johnson, K.P., Cruickshank, R.H., Adams, R.J., Smith, V.S., Page, R.D.M. Clayton, D.H. (2003)
Dramatically elevated rate of mitochondrial substitution in lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera).
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26:231-242.
Smith, V.S. (2003)
Ex Cathedra Cladistics (Book review of "Cladistics: A Practical Primer on CD-ROM" by Peter Skelton, Andrew Smith, and Neale Monks).
Heredity. 91: 96-97.
