Hailey Mulconrey: Research Log 2

Search #1

Date of Search
November 24, 2009

Search Topic
Why Turkey should be admitted to the EU for cultural, religious, and political reasons.

Where did you look?
First Google Scholar and then UIUC Online Library Catalog

Search Terms
First I entered “Turkey and European Union and Accession” into a Google Scholar search of “articles excluding patents” and modified it with “since 2008.”

Results

I had over 9,000 sources come up, and many of these articles from scholarly journals or books that came up looked incredibly relevant and helpful for the purposes of my paper. Unfortunately, most of these journals wanted me to pay around 20 bucks to purchase the journal article. I then found “Turkey’s Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy” multi-authored book which was not accessible on Google Scholar without a charge on the second page of the search. I went to the UIUC online Library Catalog where I logged in and gained full access to this online multi-authored volume work by entering the title of the book into a search by title.
This multi-authored volume will be the most important source for the purposes of my paper. It contains 18 different articles by scholars in the field addressing different types of issues considered in Turkey’s accession from the perspectives of different scholars. The articles contained everything from general background of Turkey’s pre-accession period to political, cultural, religious, and security issues raised during the pre-accession period. These articles are all incredibly useful and will provide important different perspectives on Turkey’s accession that will help to frame my paper. It was also published in 2009 so it is one of the most updated sources for my research topic.

Citation

Arvanitopoulos, Constantine, and Tzifakis, Nikolaos, eds. Turkey’s Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy. Athens, Greece: Centre for European Studies and the Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy, 2009. Print.



Search #2

Date of Search
November 24, 2009

Search Topic
Why Turkey should be admitted to the EU for cultural, religious, and political reasons.

Where did you look?
Google Scholar and then UIUC Catalog

Search Terms
“Turkey and the European Union” on Google Scholar, modified: “articles excluding patents,” “since 2006”

Results

I received a very large result for my search parameters again in Google Scholar. I found another multi-author anthology titled “Turkey and the European Union: Internal Dynamics and External Challenges.” I found this on Google Scholar and it was not accessible for free, so I again went back to the UIUC Online Catalog and entered the name of the editor, Joseph S. Joseph, into a search. His name came up and I clicked on it to find everything he had written and edited. I found his book and went to the Education section of the library in order to check it out.
This anthology was written in 2006, so some parts of the articles I found on general history of Turkey accession process or the United States’ view of Turkey accession were helpful. I plan to include the views of different countries in support of and opposition of Turkey’s accession. A lot has occurred during the last three years of Turkey’s pre-accession period, so some of the articles are not as helpful.

Citation

Joseph, Joseph S., eds. Turkey and the European Union: Internal Dynamics and External Challenges. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.





Search #3

Date of Search
November 26, 2009

Search Topic
Why Turkey should be admitted to the EU for cultural, religious, and political reasons.

Where did you look?
Google Scholar

Search Terms
“Turkey” and “European Union” on Google Scholar, modified: “articles excluding patents,” “since 2009”

Results

I again had about 5,000 results pop up, most of which were not accessible without a price. The third article that came up in the list was actually a downloadable pdf of an article titled “Turkey and the European Union: Divergent Discourses?”. This article was from the Romanian Journal of European Affairs and included a lot of helpful information about the views of different EU member states on Turkey’s accession. This article also documents the decrease in support for Turkey joining the EU in both Turkey and EU member states. This article will provide me with a lot of useful information that will help in framing the different sides of the debate. It is also very up to date since it was published in 2009.

Citation
Moxon-Browne, Edward, and Ustun, Cidgem. “Turkey and the European Union: Divergent Discourses?” Romanian Journal of European Affairs, vol. 9, no. 3 (September 2009) 34-52. Print.