Duplicate content clarity required

[jayderby]

Hi,

I have access to a masive resource of journals that we have been given the all clear to use the abstract on our site and link back to the journal. These will be really useful links for our visitors.

E.g.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/59210832213382K2

Simply, if we copy the abstract and then link back to the journal source will this be treated as duplicate content and damage the site or is the link to the source enough for search engines to realise that we aren't trying anything untoward.

Would it help if we added an introduction so in effect we are sort of following the curating content model?

We are thinking of linking back internally to a relevant page using a keyword too. Will this approach give any benefit to our site at all or will the content be ignored due to it being duplicate and thus render the internal links useless?

Thanks

Jason

[EGOL]

It looks like some other people are already doing this as I did a query for the first two sentences in quotes.

And if you are linking to the same content on their site then there is a very good chance that at least one will be filtered - and it will probably not be springer.

If you have lots of these pages on your site you could be hit with a Panda problem that could reduce your rankings site-wide.

I would not place these abstract pages on my site unless they were noindex, follow