The 2025 Presidential Administration transition has resulted in significant changes to government websites including the removal and scaling back of webpages, publications, reports, and datasets that are widely used for research in many disciplines including health, sociology, environmental science, and more. While the situation is rapidly changing, this blog will point to archived datasets and reports as well as resources on how data is being saved, stored, and made accessible.
Alternative Resources for Removed Information
If you have a government webpage url that is no longer available you can try using Gov Wayback to retrieve it in its state prior to January 20th 2025.
- Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST)
- CDC RSV Vaccine Guidance during Pregnancy
- Census Working papers and recent reports
- All state-level hate crime data from the US Department of Justice
- FDA Guidance on increasing diversity in clinical trials
- Harvard has released a backup of Data.gov
- IPUMS maintains a secure backup of Census and survey data
- End of Term Archive from the Internet Archive
Resources for Context on Preserving Government Data
- Singer, E. (Feb. 2, 2025). Thousands of Federal Web Pages Taken Down. The New York Times, A19-.
- Quinn, R. (Jan. 29, 2025). As data goes off-line under Trump, Environmental researchers are uploading backups. Inside Higher Ed
- Cox, C., Rae, M., Kates, J., Wager, E., Ortazliza, J., & Dawson, L. (Feb. 2, 2025) A look at federal health data taken offline. KFF
- Koebler, J. (Jan. 30th, 2025). Archivists works to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov. 404 Media