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Released just over a week ago, the University Scholarly Knowledge Inventory System (U-SKIS) "tracks .pdf files from start to finish, records communication and provides publisher's archiving policies to determine what may be added to a digital institutional repository." It's available under the GPL and runs on pretty much and platform that supports MySQL and Perl.

The scale of this accomplishment is astounding, despite the criticisms that have been made against UMich and Google in implementing the program. As the story points out, that's one million out of a total book collection of 7.5 million.