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The paper presents the interview with Professor Jela Steinerova, who has been working at the Department of Library and Information Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava since 1992. Her research and publication activities include a number of contributions to the field of information science, with a focus on theory and methodology, information behaviour, information ecology and ethical aspects of digital technologies. She participates in the creation of curriculum at the department and in the coordination of international cooperation within research projects. Her membership on editorial boards of foreign as well as Slovak academic journals, including Information Research, Open Information Science, Mousaion, Proinflow and ITlib proves her exceptional international standing. In general, she can be regarded as one of the most influential personalities in the field of information science on international level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the author's favorite open search tools for finding open arts and humanities content. Topics discussed include the JURN search tool, which discovers the full text of open journals in the arts and humanities; the sister tool of JURN called GRAFT, which searches the world's academic repositories, and the extremely poor semantic interpretation of queries resulting in subsequent slowing down of Paperity, a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.