Accessing info from a ScriptableObject

Unity Engine
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Is there any way to access information from a ScriptableObject other than to drag in a reference into a Monobehaviour’s inspector field?

I have some database/global info type ScriptableObjects that are required by multiple different scripts. I was hoping I could avoid dragging in references to the SOs to all the different scripts that require info from them.

My current workaround is to have some static methods in the actual ScriptableObject and an Init() method that initializes the static vars that provide an interface to the internal info. I attempted to have the the initialization occur in OnEnable(), but it does not appear to be called at runtime…unless I select the asset corresponding to the SO in the editor.
So I have to drag in a reference to the SO asset into a Monobehaviour and call the Init() method manually. Then the other scripts can all access the static methods to access the info in the ScriptableObject.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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You could use the resources folder and Resources.Load()

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Edit: Looks like I spoke too soon. I got NullExceptions as soon as I restarted the Editor. OnEnable() was still not getting called on the ScriptableObjects until I selected the actual asset in the Assets Window. However, when I dragged in a reference to the SO asset into a script, OnEnable() seems to get triggered now.

That did the trick. Thanks a lot.
I guess Unity was purging the actual ScriptableObject asset from the build at runtime when it found no references to it.
Putting it in Resources works around that nicely - OnEnable() seems to get called reliably now.