Patent ID: 8306984

Claim:
A system for providing a user module access to interrelated sources of information pertaining to a given subject, the system comprising: a service module comprising: a processor; at least one computer readable media for storing thereon a data structure comprising a plurality of data tables for storing the interrelated sources of information; a contextual index for associating the interrelated sources of information based on at least one pre-existing interrelation between interrelated sources of information; and a set of statements and instructions, where, upon execution by the processor, provides for the association of, and access to the-interrelated sources of information; and a communication interface for interfacing with the user module and providing thereto access to the associated interrelated sources of information via the contextual index; and wherein the contextual index comprises criteria defining at least one relationship between the interrelated sources of information wherein the interrelated sources of information are thereby associated based on the criteria; wherein at least one of the criteria is selected from the group consisting of: subject topic, issue related to the subject, keywords, title of information source, sub-title of information source, historical significance of information source, topics, document types, citations, and references; wherein at least one of the interrelated sources of information is configured for visual presentation in a plurality of ways; and wherein the system is configured to provide at least one annotation to at least one of the interrelated sources of information, each of the at least one annotation defining a link to another of the interrelated sources of information.