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
• 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

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), 27–30. https://doi.org/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]. https://doi.org/10.25365/thesis.73661

Other publications

• Mähr, M., Jaekel, M., Johann, D., Mutz, R., & Šimukovič, E. (2026, January 29). On the current and future uses of quantitative scientometric indicators (QSI) in Swiss higher education institutions [Conference poster]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18656168
• Šimukovič, E. (2024). Transformative agreements are a blind alley. Katina. https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-20241008-1
• Jaekel, M., & Šimukovič, E. (2024). CoARA Action Plan for the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10611021
• Šimukovič, E. (2023). Vier Dilemmata offener Wissenschaft. Impact, 63, 44. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29389
• Spichtinger, D., & Šimukovič, E. (2023). Radical open-access proposal needs to succeed. Research Professional News. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29149
• Trautwein, C., Andres, V., Corredera Nilsson, E., Šimukovič, E., Rosenkranz Simone, Dobis, D., Flieg, J., & Reymermier, H. (2022). Wie das GOAL-Projekt nachhaltige Kollaborationen zwischen Menschen, Maschinen und Strukturen fördert. Open-Access-Tage, Bern, Schweiz, 19.-21. September 2022. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7038763
• Trautwein, C., Andres, V., Dobis, D., Flieg, J., Moritz, A., Reymermier, H., Corredera Nilsson, E., Rosenkranz, S., & Šimukovič, E. (2022). Bericht der Publikationsanalyse im Projekt GOAL. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7051051
• Hauf, N., Fürholz, A., Klaas, V. C., Morger, J., Šimukovič, E., & Jaekel, M. (2021). Data reuse in the social sciences and humanities : project report of the SWITCH Innovation Lab “Repositories & Data Quality”. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2404

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Daudrich, A., Šimukovič, E., & Asfar, A. (2024, June 10). What does reusable mean for datasets? Insights from use cases for student theses. Swiss Reproducibility Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 10-11 June 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14245965
• Šimukovič, E. (2020, November 25). Alles Gold, was glänzt? : wie Open Access zu neuen Ungleichheiten beiträgt. Open Access : mehr Partizipation oder neue Ungleichheiten? Veranstaltung zu kritischen Perspektiven auf Digitalisierung, Bern, 25. November 2020. 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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