Dr. Elena Simukovic

Work at ZHAW

Position

Head of Research & Infrastructure area, university library

Focus

• Open Access
• Open Science
• Research data management
• Scholarly communication
• Science policy
• Research evaluation

Experience

• Member of the working group Reforming Academic Career Assessment
  Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)
  2023 - today
• Member of the Swiss national Open Research Data (ORD) Coordination Group
  Swiss National ORD Strategy Council
  2022 - today
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee
  OPERAS - open scholarly communication in the European research area for the social sciences and the humanities
  2020 - today
• Member of the «Reviewers’ Pool» for Open Science program
  swissuniversities
  2020 - today
• Member of the Expert Group on Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication
  European Commission
  2017 - 2019

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Science and Technology Studies
  University of Vienna
  2014 - 2023
• Master of Arts / Library and Information Science
  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  2010 - 2012
• Bachelor / Information science
  Vilnius University
  2005 - 2009

Continuing Education

• Science & Policy for Environmental Action
  Geneva Science-Policy Interface, University of Geneva
  06 / 2025
• Management training
  ZHAW
  08 / 2023

Network

Membership of networks

• Swiss National Open Research Data (ORD) Strategy Council
• Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)
• European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
• OPERAS - open scholarly communication in the European research area for the social sciences and the humanities

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1363-243X

Projects

• Automated research output retrieval and self-archiving notification service for authors / Team member / completed
• Reusing Openly Accessible research Data for Student theses / Deputy project leader / completed
• DSembedded: Integrating discipline-specific Know How into Data Stewardship / Team member / completed
• Unlocking the Green Open Access potentiaL in scholarly and professional journals in Switzerland / Co-project leader / completed

Publications

• Šimukovič, Elena,

  2020.

  Plan S, Open Access and the potential roles for STS research.

  Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies.

  8(1), pp. 27-30.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5324/njsts.v8i1.3586

• Šimukovič, Elena,

  2023.

  Of hopes, villains, and Trojan horses : Open Access academic publishing and its battlefields.

  Wien:

  Universität Wien.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.25365/thesis.73661

• Šimukovič, Elena,

  2024.

  Transformative agreements are a blind alley.

  Katina.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-20241008-1

• Jaekel, Martin; Šimukovič, Elena,

  2024.

  CoARA Action Plan for the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

  Zenodo.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10611021

• Šimukovič, Elena,

  2023.

  Vier Dilemmata offener Wissenschaft.

  Impact.

  (63), pp. 44.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29389

• Spichtinger, Daniel; Šimukovič, Elena,

  2023.

  Radical open-access proposal needs to succeed.

  Research Professional News.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29149

• Trautwein, Clemens; Andres, Valérie; Dobis, Dietrich; Flieg, Julia; Moritz, Andrea; Reymermier, Hélène; Corredera Nilsson, Enrique; Rosenkranz, Simone; Šimukovič, Elena,

  2022.

  Bericht der Publikationsanalyse im Projekt GOAL.

  Zenodo.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7051051

• Trautwein, Clemens; Andres, Valérie; Corredera Nilsson, Enrique; Šimukovič, Elena; Rosenkranz Simone; Dobis, Dietrich; Flieg, Julia; Reymermier, Hélène,

  2022.

  Wie das GOAL-Projekt nachhaltige Kollaborationen zwischen Menschen, Maschinen und Strukturen fördert[poster].

  In:

  Open-Access-Tage, Bern, Schweiz, 19.-21. September 2022.

  Zenodo.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7038763

• Hauf, Nicolai; Fürholz, Andreas; Klaas, Vanessa Christina; Morger, Jennifer; Šimukovič, Elena; Jaekel, Martin,

  2021.

  Data reuse in the social sciences and humanities : project report of the SWITCH Innovation Lab “Repositories & Data Quality”.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2404

• Daudrich, Anna; Šimukovič, Elena; Asfar, Amira,

  2024.

  What does reusable mean for datasets? Insights from use cases for student theses.

  In:

  Swiss Reproducibility Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 10-11 June 2024.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14245965

• Šimukovič, Elena,

  2020.

  Alles Gold, was glänzt? : wie Open Access zu neuen Ungleichheiten beiträgt.

  In:

  Open Access : mehr Partizipation oder neue Ungleichheiten? Veranstaltung zu kritischen Perspektiven auf Digitalisierung, Bern, 25. November 2020.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.48350/148557

Research data

Trautwein, Clemens; Andres, Valérie; Corredera Nilsson, Enrique; Dobis, Dietrich; Flieg, Julia; Moritz, Andrea; Reymermier, Hélène; Rosenkranz, Simone; Šimukovič, Elena, 2022. Dataset underlying the report of the publication analysis GOAL 2020-2021. Zenodo. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7046363

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