Publications
Hudson LN, Blagoderov V, Heaton A, Holtzhausen P, Livermore L, Price BW, van der Walt S, Smith VS (null) Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections. PLOS ONE, 10 (11) : e0143402 - e0143402. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143402
Mori E, Ancillotto L, Groombridge J, Howard T, Smith VS, Menchetti M (2015) Macroparasites of introduced parakeets in Italy: a possible role for parasite-mediated competition. Parasitology Research, 114 (9) : 3277 - 3281. doi: 10.1007/s00436-015-4548-2
Baker E, Price BW, Rycroft SD, Hill J, Smith VS (2015) BioAcoustica: a free and open repository and analysis platform for bioacoustics. Database, 2015 : doi: 10.1093/database/bav054
Martinu J, Roubova V, Novakova M, Smith VS, Hypsa V, Stefka J (null) Characterisation of microsatellite loci in two species of lice, Polyplax serrata (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) and Myrsidea nesomimi (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae). Folia Parasitologica, 62 : doi: 10.14411/fp.2015.016
Smith VS (null) E-publishing descriptive taxonomy: the convergence of taxonomic journals and databases, In: Descriptive Taxonomy, Cambridge University Press : 272 - 295.
Lisong W, Vincent SS, Hongrui Z, Xianchun Z (2014) Scratchpads 2.0:a virtual research environment for biodiversity sciences in the Internet era. Biodiversity Science, 22 (3) : 264 - 264. doi: 10.3724/sp.j.1003.2014.14012
Baker E, Rycroft S, Smith V (null) Linking multiple biodiversity informatics platforms with Darwin Core Archives. Biodiversity Data Journal, 2 : e1039 - e1039. doi: 10.3897/bdj.2.e1039
Stoev P, Komerički A, Akkari N, Liu S, Zhou X, Weigand A, Hostens J, Hunter C, Edmunds S, Porco D, Zapparoli M, Georgiev T, Mietchen D, Roberts D, Faulwetter S, Smith V, Penev L (null) Eupolybothrus cavernicolus Komerički & Stoev sp. n. (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae): the first eukaryotic species description combining transcriptomic, DNA barcoding and micro-CT imaging data. Biodiversity Data Journal, 1 : e1013 - e1013. doi: 10.3897/bdj.1.e1013
Smith V, Georgiev T, Stoev P, Biserkov J, Miller J, Livermore L, Baker E, Mietchen D, Couvreur T, Mueller G, Dikow T, Helgen KM, Frank J, Agosti D, Roberts D, Penev L (null) Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal. Biodiversity Data Journal, 1 : e995 - e995. doi: 10.3897/bdj.1.e995
Edmunds SC, Hunter CI, Smith V, Stoev P, Penev L (2013) Biodiversity research in the “big data” era: GigaScience and Pensoft work together to publish the most data-rich species description. GigaScience, 2 (1) : doi: 10.1186/2047-217x-2-14
Hardisty A, Roberts D (2013) A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities. BMC Ecology, 13 (1) : 16 - 16. doi: 10.1186/1472-6785-13-16
Smith V (2013) Cybertaxonomy, In: The Future of Scholarly Communication, Shorley D, Jubb M (Eds). Facet Publishing : London. 63 - 74.
Blagoderov V, Kitching I, Livermore L, Simonsen T, Smith V (null) No specimen left behind: industrial scale digitization of natural history collections. ZooKeys, 209 : 133 - 146. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3178
Blagoderov V, Smith V (null) Bringing collections out of the dark. ZooKeys, 209 : 1 - 6. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3699
Johnson KP, Shreve SM, Smith VS (2012) Repeated adaptive divergence of microhabitat specialization in avian feather lice. BMC Biology, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-52
Blagoderov V, Smith V (2011) No Specimens Left Behind. Presented at Life and Literature.
Brake I, Duin D, Van de Velde I, Smith V, Rycroft S (null) Who learns from whom? Supporting users and developers of a major biodiversity e-infrastructure. ZooKeys, 150 : 177 - 192. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2191
Penev L, Mietchen D, Chavan V, Hagedorn G, Remsen D, SMITH VS, Shotton D (2011) Pensoft Data Publishing Policies and Guidelines for Biodiversity Data Published online by Pensoft on 25th of May 2011. Pensoft Publishers, http://www.pensoft.net/J_FILES/Pensoft_Data_Publishing_Policies_and_Guidelines.pdf :
Smith VS, Ford T, Johnson KP, Johnson PCD, Yoshizawa K, Light JE (2011) Multiple lineages of lice pass through the K–Pg boundary. Biology Letters, 7 (5) : 782 - 785. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0105
Smith V, Penev L (null) Collaborative electronic infrastructures to accelerate taxonomic research. ZooKeys, 150 : 1 - 3. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2458
Smith V, Rycroft S, Brake I, Scott B, Baker E, Livermore L, Blagoderov V, Roberts D (null) Scratchpads 2.0: a Virtual Research Environment supporting scholarly collaboration, communication and data publication in biodiversity science. ZooKeys, 150 : 53 - 70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2193
Štefka J, Hoeck PEA, Keller LF, Smith VS (2011) A hitchhikers guide to the Galápagos: co-phylogeography of Galápagos mockingbirds and their parasites. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11 (1) : 284 - 284. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-284
Roberts D, Smith VS (2010) Copyright.
Penev L, Roberts D, Smith V, Agosti D, Erwin T (null) Taxonomy shifts up a gear: New publishing tools to accelerate biodiversity research. ZooKeys, 50 : 1 - 4. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.543
Blagoderov V, Kitching I, Simonsen T, Smith VS (2010) Report on trial of SatScan tray scanner system by SmartDrive Ltd.. : Nature Precedings7.
Blagoderov V, Brake I, Georgiev T, Penev L, Roberts D, Ryrcroft S, Scott B, Agosti D, Catapano T, Smith V (null) Streamlining taxonomic publication: a working example with Scratchpads and ZooKeys. ZooKeys, 50 : 17 - 28. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.539
Blagoderov V, Kitching IJ, Simonsen T, Smith V (2010) Report on trial of SatScan tray scanner system by SmartDrive Ltd. Nature Precedings
BLAGODEROV V, Georgiev T, Penev L, RYCROFT S, SCOTT B, SMITH V (2010) Streamlining Taxonomic Publication. EDIT Newsletter, 24 : 10 - 12.
Light JE, Smith VS, Allen JM, Durden LA, Reed DL (2010) Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10 (1) : 292 - 292. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-292
Penev L, Agosti D, Georgiev T, Catapano T, Miller J, Blagoderov V, Roberts D, Smith V, Brake I, Ryrcroft S, Scott B, Johnson N, Morris R, Sautter G, Chavan V, Robertson T, Remsen D, Stoev P, Parr C, Knapp S, Kress WJ, Thompson F, Erwin T (null) Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples. ZooKeys, 50 : 1 - 16. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.538
Roberts D, SMITH VS (2010) ViBRANT -Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy. In Tools for identifying biodiversity: progress and problems. Nimis PL, Lebbe RV (Eds). Proceedings of the International Congress, September 20-22, 2010,
ROBERTS D, SMITH VS (2010) VIBRANT - Virtual Biodiveristy Research and Access Network for Taxonomy. Nimis PL, Vignes Lebbe R (Eds). Tools for Identifying Biodiversity: Progress and Problems,
Smith VS (2010) Systema Naturae 250—The Linnaean Ark. Systematic Biology, 59 (6) : 757 - 760. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syq038
Smith VS, Duin D, Self D, Brake I, Roberts D (2010) Motivating Online Publication of Scholarly Research Through Social Networking Tools. Stevens G, Pipek V, Rohde M (Eds). Webcentives: Incentives and Motivation for Web- Based Collaboration. In the 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Workshop Proceedings of 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems 7 (1) : IISI - International Institute for Socio-Informatics : 329 - 339.
Smith VS, Roberts D, Rycroft SD (2010) Small pieces loosely joined: Getting louse research on the Web. Fourth International Conference on Phthiraptera (ICP4),, Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi. 34 (Supplement 1) : 6 - 6.
SMITH VS, Palma RL (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, 34 :
Smith VS (2009) Data publication: towards a database of everything. BMC Research Notes, 2 (1) : 113 - 113. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-113
Smith VS, Rycroft SD, Harman KT, Scott B, Roberts D (2009) Scratchpads: a data-publishing framework to build, share and manage information on the diversity of life. BMC Bioinformatics, 10 (S14) : doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-s14-s6
Rycroft S, Smith V, Roberts D (null) Scratchpads: getting biodiversity online, redefining publication. Jones AC (Eds). Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge, 107 7 - 10 7 7http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod/proceedings2008.html
Beccaloni GW, Smith VS (2008) Celebrations for Darwin downplay Wallace's role. Nature, 451 (7182) : 1050 - 1050. doi: 10.1038/4511050d
Mayo S, Allkin R, Baker W, Blagoderov V, Brake I, Clark B, Govaerts R, Godfray HCJ, Haigh A, Hand R, Harman K, Jackson M, Kilian N, Kirkup DW, Kitching IJ, Knapp S, Lewis GP, Malcolm-Tompkins P, von Raab-Straube E, Roberts DM, Scoble MJ, Simpson D, Smith CR, Smith V, Villalba S, Walley L, Wilkin P (2008) Alpha e-taxonomy: responses from the systematics community to the biodiversity crisis. Kew Bulletin, 63 : 1 - 16.
ROBERTS D, RYCROFT SD, BRAKE I, HARMAN K, Scott B, SMITH VS (2008) Getting Taxonomy onto the Web. The Systematist, 30 : 3 - 10.
SMITH VS (2008) The New Taxonomy. Systematic Biology, 57 : 660 - 663.
SMITH VS, Light JE, Durden LA (2008) Rodent louse diversity, phylogeny, and cospeciation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 63 : 1 - 16.
SMITH VS, RYCROFT SD, ROBERTS D (2008) Scratchpads: Getting Biodiversity online, redefining publication. Proceedings of the British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) 2008 "Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modeling and managing biodiversity knowledge",
Cohn DL, Smith V, 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 - 119. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.12.008
SMITH VS, Dalgleish RC, Cruickshank RH (2007) Fossil lice reconsidered - Erratum. Systematic Entomology, 32 :
Lane RS, Kucera T, Barrett RH, Hasty JM, Wu C, SMITH VS (2006) Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) as a host of isodid ticks, lice and lyme disease spirochetes (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato) in Californian state parks. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 42 : 759 - 771.
SMITH VS (2006) Phthiraptera. McGraw-Hill Professional : New York. 489 - 491.
SMITH VS, DALGLEISH RC, CRUICKSHANK RH (2007) Fossil Lice Reconsidered - Erratum. Systematic Entomology, 32 (1) : 196 - 196. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2007.00371.x
Smith VS (2005) DNA Barcoding: Perspectives from a “Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy” (PEET) Debate. Systematic Biology, 54 (5) : 841 - 844. doi: 10.1080/10635150500354894
Koh LP, Dunn RR, Sodhi NS, Colwell RK, Proctor H, Smith VS (2004) Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis. Science, 305 (5690) : 1632 - 1634. doi: 10.1126/science.1101101
Johnson KP, Yoshizawa K, Smith VS (2004) Multiple origins of parasitism in lice. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 271 (1550) : 1771 - 1776. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2798
Wappler T, Smith VS, Dalgleish RC (2004) Scratching an ancient itch: an Eocene bird louse fossil. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 271 (suppl_5) : doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0158
Smith VS (2004) The Chewing Lice: World Checklist and Biological Overview.—R. D. Price, R. A. Hellenthal, R. L. Palma, K. P. Johnson, D. H. Clayton. 2003. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 24. x+501 pp. ISBN 1–882932–08–0. $35.00 (hard cover).. Systematic Biology, 53 (4) : 666 - 668. doi: 10.1080/10635150490468521
Smith VS, Page RDM, Johnson KP (2004) Data incongruence and the problem of avian louse phylogeny. Zoologica Scripta, 33 (3) : 239 - 259. doi: 10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00149.x
Page RDM, Cruickshank RH, Dickens M, Furness RW, Kennedy M, Palma RL, Smith VS (2004) Phylogeny of “Philoceanus complex” seabird lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 30 (3) : 633 - 652. doi: 10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00227-6
Reed DL, Smith VS, Hammond SL, Rogers AR, Clayton DH (null) Genetic Analysis of Lice Supports Direct Contact between Modern and Archaic Humans. PLoS Biology, 2 (11) : e340 - e340. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020340
Smith V (null) Lousy phylogenies: Phthiraptera systematics and the antiquity of lice. Meeting on Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders, Entomologische Abhandlungen 61 : 150 - 151.
Smith V (null) Phthiraptera: Chewing and sucking lice., In: Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Gale Group : 249 - 257.
Smith VS (2003) Ex Cathedra Cladistics. Heredity, 91 (2) : 96 - 97. doi: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800321
Johnson KP, Cruickshank RH, Adams RJ, Smith VS, Page RDM, Clayton DH (2003) Dramatically elevated rate of mitochondrial substitution in lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 26 (2) : 231 - 242. doi: 10.1016/s1055-7903(02)00342-1
Smith VS (2003) Scratching a thirty-year itch!: a review of the Second International Congress on Phthiraptera. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 30 : 327 - 331.
Cruickshank RH, Johnson KP, Smith VS, Adams RJ, Clayton DH, Page RDM (2001) Phylogenetic Analysis of Partial Sequences of Elongation Factor 1α Identifies Major Groups of Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 19 (2) : 202 - 215. doi: 10.1006/mpev.2001.0928
SMITH V (2001) Avian louse phylogeny (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera): a cladistic study based on morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132 (1) : 81 - 144. doi: 10.1006/zjls.2000.0264
Smith VS (2000) Basal ischnoceran louse phylogeny (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Goniodidae and Heptapsogasteridae). Systematic Entomology, 25 (1) : 73 - 94. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2000.00095.x
