Curriculum Vitae

Ivana Hebrang Grgić (scientist ID 254471) was born in Zagreb. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in the study of philosophy and informatics (librarianship) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She graduated in 1999, defending her dissertation entitled Press Legislation in Croatia from 1945 to 1990. In 2000, she enrolled in postgraduate studies at the Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. In 2001, she was employed as a school librarian in Zagreb.
In 2002, she started to work as a research fellow on the project Dictionary of Croatian Library Terminology at the Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. After that project, she collaborated on the projects Hybrid Library and Access to Scientific Information, Organization, Management and Exchange of Knowledge in the Electronic Educational Environment, and since 2007 on the project Traditional and Electronic Publishing in Zagreb. She defended her master's thesis Publishing scientific journals after 1990 in January 2004.
She defended her doctoral dissertation Open Access to Scientific Information in Croatian Open Access Journals and Digital Repositories in 2009. She lectures in numerous courses (Fundamentals of Librarianship, Publishing and Book Publishing, Scientific Journals and Communication, History of Books and Libraries, etc.). Since 2011 she was research associate, since 2013 senior research associate, and since 2018 to the scientific title of scientific advisor. In 2020 she became associate professor.
Since 2003, she has been actively participating in the work of the Croatian Library Association. She was a member of the editorial board of Novosti of the Croatian Library Association, and in 2011 she was elected a member of the editorial board of the Croatian Library Association. As the editor-in-chief, she started a series Croatian librarianship. From 2012 to 2020 she has been a member of the Commission for Free Access to Information of the Croatian Library Association.
From 2016 to 2022, she was a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Libellarium, and from 2022 she is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal European Science Editing.
Since 2022, she has been a member of the Council and Publishing board of the Center for Comparative Historical and Intercultural Studies.
She is the author of five books as well as a series of articles in scientific and professional, domestic and international journals. She has edited seven scientific books, regularly participates in national and international conferences. She participated in international projects (Erasmus Intensive Program - Academic Summer School Library, Information and Cultural Management) in 2011 and 2012. In the summer of 2012, she was invited as an open access expert to participate in the Scientific Communication for Public Debate workshop organized by the European Commission (Joint Research Centre). She is one of the authors of the Croatian Declaration on Open Access published in October 2012. She is the winner of the Europe's Open Access Champions (2016), the Annual Award of the Faculty of Philosophy (2017), the ENAI Award - European Network of Academic Integrity (2018) and the annual Ivan Filipović State Award for Higher Education (2019).

Publications listed in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI)

Identifiers:

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6709-9939

ResearcherID: B-5743-2016

Courses:

History of Book and Libraries

Libraries and Library Collections 1

Libraries and Library Collections 2

Scholarly Journals and Communication

Information Legislative and Ethics

Publishing and Book Trade

Fields of interest:

publishing

open access to scientific publications

information ethics

library services

history of book and libraries

information literacy

Editor:

Editor-in-chief of Croatian Librarianship Series of the Croatian Library Association (2011-2014, 2017-2021)

Editorial board of Croatian Library Association (2010-2021)

Editorial board of Libellarium:jornal for the research of writing, books and cultural heritage institutions (2015-2022)

Editorial board of European Scinece Editing (2022- )

Publishing board of the Center for Comparative Historical and Intercultural Studies (2022- )

Membership: 

Croatian Library Association (Commission on Free Access to Information, Commission for Theory and Scientific Work, Working Group for Social Networks)

Croatian Information and Documentation Society

Croatian Reading Association

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

Projects

Thesaurus of Croatian library science terminology

Hybrid library and access to information

Knowledge organization in electronic learning environment

Traditional and electronic publishing in Zagreb

Digitization, bibliographic description and research of texts written in Glagolitic, Bosnian Cyrillic and Latin scripts until the end of 19th century in Zadar and Šibenik area

Croatian Emigrant Press