16. The method of claim 12 , further comprising refining the search result before transmission to the client access device in accordance with a white list of documents, the white list indicating one or more documents to be added to or elevated in the search result.
12. A method of retrieving documents, the method comprising: receiving by a server a query, the query including a first term, from a requesting application presented by a client access device, the requesting application having a plurality of subject areas, the query associated with a subject area of the plurality of subject areas; selecting a taxonomy that is associated with the subject area of the query, the plurality of subject areas being related to different taxonomies; refining the query based on the taxonomy selected to include a second term in the query; processing the query as refined against at least one database storing documents to retrieve a search result including at least one document; and transmitting the search result to the client access device.