If you are struggling to access decent resources while you’re working from home, here’s a quick overview of some of the resources from the Ottawa Public Library that might be of interest to you. You’ll need an active OPL library card for it to work, and if it prompts you for a PIN you don’t know, it is probably the last four digits of your phone number.

On the OPL website, choose Browse / Online Resources and then one of the following resources.

A. ACADEMIC ONEFILE

Many libraries offer access to online journal databases, and OPL has Academic OneFile. It is produced by GALE, and it is not a full replacement for what you might have from EBSCO or an academic library like Carleton or UOttawa. But it’s pretty good. Let’s work through a couple of examples.

If I search for something like “nudging”, the popular term for the more technical field of “choice architecture”, it finds:

• Academic Journals  (2,906)
• Magazines  (4,446)
• Books  (37)
• News  (14,843)
• Videos  (5)

Of course, some of those materials are going to be behind additional paywalls, but most will be accessible. The above search brought up this one from an academic journal:

Supiano, Beckie. “When a Big Idea Falls Short: New studies cast doubt on how well ‘nudging’ can work nationally.”… Read the rest