Library Guides: Government Information: Recovery Efforts for Federal Government Data

Recovery Efforts for Federal Government Data

Data Rescue Project

The Data Rescue Tracker provides information on where this project (a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network).

Federal Environmental Web Tracker
EDGI (Environmental Data & Governance Iniative) relaunches Federal Environmental Web Tracker providing records of significant changes to federal environmental websites publicly available in a searchable database.
Data.gov Archive
From Harvard University
Find Lost* Data
A frequently updated site from Boston University to find datasets removed from a variety of Federal, state, and local agencies.
End of Term Web Archive
Preserving Federal government websites at the end of U.S. presidential administrations since 2008.
GODORT - 2025 Presidential Transition
Guide from the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) including resources for archived sites, tracking sites, and other resources.
GovWayback
Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025.
DataLumos
An ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources that accepts crowd-sourced resources for overall safekeeping and disseminating.
Checklist for USA Federal Data Backups
A MIT Libraries checklist for those wanting to ensure Federal data remains accessible to everyone.
Free Government Information (FGI)
Website for stakeholders interested in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information.
Government Information Data Rescue
Guide from American University to help one locate U.S. Federal government data that may have been redacted or removed in Presidential Executive Orders starting late January 2025.
Finding Missing Government Websites
University of Michigan guide providing access to the removal of U.S. government data and websites.
Federal Data Rescue Efforts
A longer list of Federal government rescue efforts by Baylor University
Government Science Data May Soon Be Hidden. They’re Racing to Copy It.

New York Times article from March 21, 2025. Current Mines students, faculty, and staff have access to The New York Times with a personal account - see New York Times (Registration Link)

Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites
MIT Technology Review article from February 7, 2025.