20230308 20230308041100 Bess Missell missellb@si.edu Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program Smithsonian Institution Edward Venzke National Museum of Natural History https://ror.org/00cz47042 Washington, DC Smithsonian Institution https://ror.org/01pp8nd67 Washington, DC https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9755-3458 When the new website was launched in May 2013 following three years of database conversion and restructuring, this catalog of Holocene volcanoes and eruptions was renamed "Volcanoes of the World" with an initial version of 4.0, in recognition of the three previous editions of the book published by Smithsonian scientists (in 1981, 1994, and 2010) with the same title. The 4.0 version had eruptions updated through 2010, so 4.4.0 was complete (to the best of our knowledge) through 2014. 2013 Global Volcanism Program 10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW4-2013 2013 https://volcano.si.edu/gvp_votw.cfm Earlier version of a database 10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW5-2022.5.0