Dr. Elena Simukovic
Dr. Elena Simukovic
ZHAW
Finance & Services
University Library
Turbinenstrasse 2
8400 Winterthur
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
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), 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.
- Šimukovič, E. (2024) 'Transformative agreements are a blind alley', Katina. doi: 10.1146/katina-20241008-1.
- 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) Bericht der Publikationsanalyse im Projekt GOAL. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7051051.
- 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.
- 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. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7046363