Dr. Elena Simukovic

Work at ZHAW

Position

Head of Research Services, 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

• Reusing Openly Accessible research Data for Student theses / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• GOAL Information and Collaboration Hub / Team member / ongoing
• 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

Selected publications

Šimukovič, E. (2024) 'Transformative agreements are a blind alley', Katina. doi: 10.1146/katina-20241008-1.

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Šimukovič, E. (2020) 'Plan S, Open Access and the potential roles for STS research', Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 8(1), pp. 27–30. doi: 10.5324/njsts.v8i1.3586.

Books, peer-reviewed

Šimukovič, E. (2023) Of hopes, villains, and Trojan horses : Open Access academic publishing and its battlefields. Doctoral dissertation. Universität Wien. doi: 10.25365/thesis.73661.

Other publications

• Mähr, M. et al. (2026) 'On the current and future uses of quantitative scientometric indicators (QSI) in Swiss higher education institutions'. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18656168.
• Ochi, T., Fraga-González, G. and Šimukovič, E. (2025) (Re)Use of open research data : challenges and opportunities. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16685650.
• Daudrich, A. et al. (2025) Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten : Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit Daten in der Sekundärnutzung bei studentischen Arbeiten. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15688758.
• Šimukovič, E. (2024) 'Transformative agreements are a blind alley', Katina. doi: 10.1146/katina-20241008-1.
• Daudrich, A. et al. (2024) Checkliste: Mindestkriterien zur Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.11385459.
• Jaekel, M. and Šimukovič, E. (2024) CoARA Action Plan for the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10611021.
• Šimukovič, E. (2023) 'Vier Dilemmata offener Wissenschaft', Impact, (63), p. 44. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-29389.
• Spichtinger, D. and Šimukovič, E. (2023) 'Radical open-access proposal needs to succeed', Research Professional News. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-29149.
• Trautwein, C. et al. (2022) 'Wie das GOAL-Projekt nachhaltige Kollaborationen zwischen Menschen, Maschinen und Strukturen fördert', in Open-Access-Tage, Bern, Schweiz, 19.-21. September 2022. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7038763.
• Trautwein, C. et al. (2022) Bericht der Publikationsanalyse im Projekt GOAL. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7051051.
• Hauf, N. et al. (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. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-2404.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Daudrich, A., Šimukovič, E. and Asfar, A. (2024) 'What does reusable mean for datasets? Insights from use cases for student theses', in Swiss Reproducibility Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 10-11 June 2024. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14245965.
• Šimukovič, E. (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. doi: 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.

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