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Thank you for your reply EGOL.

We are certainly not desperate for links, but I also don't want to pass up an opportunity if it presents itself. I wasn't sure exactly how Google used the original publish date to filter duplicate content across different websites.

However, your argument is more than just Google attributing the content to them - but the content's ability to build incoming links naturally. Good point.

Maybe I should just kindly ask that they link to our articles. It seems like I may be passing up on an opportunity this way. Any other ideas to build on this?

We are receiving requests to repost our articles in full on competitor websites. Our competitors have expressed they are fine with linking back to our homepage, and the original source page. Would this benefit us, or do more harm than good?

Do you have any recommendations for tools that scan an entire website and report broken inner links?

I run several UGC centered websites and broken inner links, and external, is an issue.

Being that these websites are several hundred thousand pages large, I am not really all that excited about running software on my desktop (xenu link sleuth for example). Any online solutions you could recommend would be great!