Colin Marshall writes: “Democracy and its workings have been objects of fascination the world over. So have its central questions, not least the one of just how to maintain the ‘informed citizenry’ on which its operation supposedly depends. The Internet Archive has just launched its own kind of answer in the form of Democracy’s Library, a free, open, online compendium of government research and publications from around the world. Collected from a variety of governmental bodies like the United States’ National Agricultural Library, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and National Institute of Standards and Technology Research Library—as well as Statistics Canada and Public Accounts of Canada—its materials were ostensibly produced for the public but haven’t always been easy to find. In total, there are more than 500,000 documents in the collection.”