EMPIRE ON-LINE and other databases

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LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR ABSTRACTS--Columbia gets this database.  
Check it out at www.columbia.edu (click on Library, then databases A-Z).  
I'll perform limited queries from this database on request.
  
AMERICAN FILM SCRIPTS ONLINE--Columbia University now subscribes.  I'll tell 
you about the first "F-Word" on screen later today.  Keep in mind that film 
speech goes back only to the talkies, or the 1930s.  And film speech isn't 
the greatest to research--there's a lot of KISS KISS BANG BANG.  Meanwhile, 
back at the ranch...
  
ENGINEERING VILLAGE 2--The good thing is that this new database has U.S. 
Patent Office records.  The bad thing is that it goes back only to 1976, so 
no "chad."
  
EMPIRE ON LINE--NYU has this under its "trial databases."  The idea is good.  
Remember all those explorers' journals I was researching?  Puit 'em all 
online.  Good idea.  However, this database seems to exclude North America, 
and it has very, very few journals so far.  A check for "tomato" returned 
nothing.  A check for "food" yielded these meager results (nine total 
documents?):
  

Exactly 9 Documents retrieved in 3 Folders - click here to <A HREF="http://www.datagold.com/software/empsrch.exe?do=search&term=food&mx=30&sm=1&pl=1&su=1&century=0&wl=1&sl=1&lr=2&lib=eonline">List by Relevance</A>    

  
Section I - Cultural Contacts c1492-1969    
Biography and Chronology    <A HREF="http://www.datagold.com/software/empsrch.exe?do=text&term=food&mx=30&sm=1&pl=1&su=1&century=0&wl=1&sl=1&lr=1&lib=eonline&pn=1&cc=0&dli=1&tc=3&ts=1&mv=1&RMX=793">A Chronology of Exploration and Empire</A>  
Editorial Essays    <A HREF="http://www.datagold.com/software/empsrch.exe?do=text&term=food&mx=30&sm=1&pl=1&su=1&century=0&wl=1&sl=1&lr=1&lib=eonline&pn=1&cc=0&dli=1&tc=3&ts=1&mv=2&RMX=793">Economic Aspects of Empire by Professor Alan Frost</A> 
Department of History, La Trobe University  <A HREF="http://www.datagold.com/software/empsrch.exe?do=text&term=food&mx=30&sm=1&pl=1&su=1&century=0&wl=1&sl=1&lr=1&lib=eonline&pn=1&cc=0&dli=1&tc=3&ts=1&mv=3&RMX=793">Cultural Contacts, c 1763-1969 by 
Dr Jane Samson</A> Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta  
Documents   <A HREF="http://www.datagold.com/software/empsrch.exe?do=text&term=food&mx=30&sm=1&pl=1&su=1&century=0&wl=1&sl=1&lr=1&lib=eonline&pn=1&cc=0&dli=1&tc=3&ts=1&mv=4&RMX=793">Alexander Falconbridge (1700s), An account of the slave trade</A> on 
the coast of Africa (London, 1788). Employed as a surgeon on various slave 
ships, Falconbridge had first-hand knowledge of many aspects of the slave 
trade. Writing as an abolitionist, he describes the slave trade’s 
organisation and methods, and vividly relates the treatment and conditions of 
slaves and those employed on slave ships    
<A HREF="http://www.datagold.com/software/empsrch.exe?do=text&term=food&mx=30&sm=1&pl=1&su=1&century=0&wl=1&sl=1&lr=1&lib=eonline&pn=1&cc=0&dli=1&tc=3&ts=1&mv=5&RMX=793">Eliza Fay (1756-1816) The original letters from India (Calcutta, 1908)</A> Eliza 
Fay left England for India in 1779. Her original letters describe experiences 
in India, including views of suttee, details of imprisonment in Calicut and 
the legal separation from her husband   
<A HREF="http://www.datagold.com/software/empsrch.exe?do=text&term=food&mx=30&sm=1&pl=1&su=1&century=0&wl=1&sl=1&lr=1&lib=eonline&pn=1&cc=0&dli=1&tc=3&ts=1&mv=6&RMX=793">Maria, Lady Callcott (1785-1842), Journal of residence in India</A> (Edinburgh, 
1812) An early account of life under the Raj, including descriptions of 
colonial social society, street entertainment and visits to cultural sites  
<A HREF="http://www.datagold.com/software/empsrch.exe?do=text&term=food&mx=30&sm=1&pl=1&su=1&century=0&wl=1&sl=1&lr=1&lib=eonline&pn=1&cc=0&dli=1&tc=3&ts=1&mv=7&RMX=793">History of the Bermudas, by Captain Nathaniel Butler, Governor</A> providing 
details of the political and practical difficulties of the Islands’ first 
settlements,1609-1622:  
<A HREF="http://www.datagold.com/software/empsrch.exe?do=text&term=food&mx=30&sm=1&pl=1&su=1&century=0&wl=1&sl=1&lr=1&lib=eonline&pn=1&cc=0&dli=1&tc=3&ts=1&mv=8&RMX=793">CMS Annual Reports, 1936-1937</A>   
<A HREF="http://www.datagold.com/software/empsrch.exe?do=text&term=food&mx=30&sm=1&pl=1&su=1&century=0&wl=1&sl=1&lr=1&lib=eonline&pn=1&cc=0&dli=1&tc=3&ts=1&mv=9&RMX=793">Journal of Archibald Menzies,</A> surgeon and botanist on board Discovery under 
Captain George Vancouver, 1790-1794. Menzies provides a detailed account of 
the peoples of Tahiti, New Zealand, Hawaii, Sandwich Islands and Nootka Sound 
in North America. He relates heavily to natural historical observations and 
the impact of western culture and trade on peoples previously visited by 
Captain Cook