“it’s like itunes for academic articles!” this is the description that i rightfully both hear and offer most folks to describe mendeley.com and it’s fitting and accurate. mendeley is a friggin GEM. it brings all the awesome of the itunes UI to cloud-based system completely devoted to PDFs and MS word docs. and the geek squad at Research Networks didn’t stop there, mendeley is like a full out academic network in which users can share files with other users, organizations and departments can establish libraries for sharing, say… all their recent faculty and student pubs, and users can even search other libraries (think “limewire”) for hard to find articles.  on a very practical tip, i used mendeley to manually migrate all my articles from my old mac to my new, and it’s a damn fine cloud-based sync if i do say. like itunes, there is a universal search bar that searches content, not just titles, and as a feature of UBER convenience it’s drag/drop based. when you drag the file into mendeley it automatically reads for bibliographic info and categorizes the author, date, and publisher info (note: this seemed cooler to me because it took me 3 wks of using the program to realize it).  and yes, it’s completely free. pretty sure developers got the hint that the lucrative market is not in monetizing academic articles filing systems….

“it’s like itunes for academic articles!”

this is the description that i rightfully both hear and offer most folks to describe mendeley.com and it’s fitting and accurate. mendeley is a friggin GEM. it brings all the awesome of the itunes UI to cloud-based system completely devoted to PDFs and MS word docs. and the geek squad at Research Networks didn’t stop there, mendeley is like a full out academic network in which users can share files with other users, organizations and departments can establish libraries for sharing, say… all their recent faculty and student pubs, and users can even search other libraries (think “limewire”) for hard to find articles. 

on a very practical tip, i used mendeley to manually migrate all my articles from my old mac to my new, and it’s a damn fine cloud-based sync if i do say. like itunes, there is a universal search bar that searches content, not just titles, and as a feature of UBER convenience it’s drag/drop based. when you drag the file into mendeley it automatically reads for bibliographic info and categorizes the author, date, and publisher info (note: this seemed cooler to me because it took me 3 wks of using the program to realize it). 

and yes, it’s completely free. pretty sure developers got the hint that the lucrative market is not in monetizing academic articles filing systems….

frank lloyd wright: “if it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”


the techademic: “that’s actually… kinda the goal.”

If this were flickr i’d be greeting you in some random foreign language right now and saying “now you know how to greet people in a ::random foreign language::!”  but this is the techademic— and you are here because somewhere in your life you made a really bad decision to enter academia and now you’re looking for any app, widget, or handheld device that will make that choice a little less insufferable.  the techademic is devoted to filling a need in the life of the academician— a one stop shop for hipping you to all the latest gadgets, applications, OS updates and random voyages through the internets that bring you things that make grading, teaching, publishing, researching, and writing feel a little less like punishment from god. i just figured there had to be one site to collect all the good tidbits grad students and profs were sharing with each other over google wave email, twitter and facebook.  I’m Sai. I run this site and manage to do so with a complete disregard for punctuation and capital letters. Above is the only picture you will ever see of me published here and $20 to the first user who knows where it was taken (hint: behind it runs some notable promenade called a “diag”).  so… yeah.

If this were flickr i’d be greeting you in some random foreign language right now and saying “now you know how to greet people in a ::random foreign language::!” 

but this is the techademic— and you are here because somewhere in your life you made a really bad decision to enter academia and now you’re looking for any app, widget, or handheld device that will make that choice a little less insufferable. 

the techademic is devoted to filling a need in the life of the academician— a one stop shop for hipping you to all the latest gadgets, applications, OS updates and random voyages through the internets that bring you things that make grading, teaching, publishing, researching, and writing feel a little less like punishment from god. i just figured there had to be one site to collect all the good tidbits grad students and profs were sharing with each other over google wave email, twitter and facebook. 

I’m Sai. I run this site and manage to do so with a complete disregard for punctuation and capital letters. Above is the only picture you will ever see of me published here and $20 to the first user who knows where it was taken (hint: behind it runs some notable promenade called a “diag”). 

so… yeah.

surviving academia since 2010