Carolyn Caffrey
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a comprehensive searchable database of education research and information. The collection is being significantly reduced as part of the Department of Government Efficiency's work.
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
On May 20th all of our EBSCOhost owned databases are updating their user interfaces. Read more about the changes here!
Looking for classes for Spring 2024?
Enroll in LIB 151: Fundamentals of Information Literacy!
Have you ever wondered how Google search results are are personalized and prioritized through algorithms? Are you interested in why research is so expensive and what to do about it? Want to investigate Wikipedia and edit your own article? In this course, we'll explore those topics and many more related to information literacy, the set of skills associated with how we find, use, and evaluate information.
No expensive textbook required - all materials are freely provided as a zero-cost course!
This 3-unit class meets the General Education requirements for Area E: Lifelong Learning and we'd love to have you join us.
What will taking this online class be like?
Professor and CSUDH's STEM librarian, Aric Haas, will provide weekly activities (short readings, videos, and podcast segments, tutorials) and assignments with due dates in Canvas that you can complete at your own pace. Library faculty have chosen class materials and activities that we hope spark your curiosity, ask you to reflect on yourself and the world, and encourage dialogue between the instructor and your classmates.
Ready to sign-up?
Find LIB 151 (Class Number 22207), taught online asynchronously by Prof. Haas in the class schedule.
Are you struggling to figure out what's credible in the news? Or maybe you'd just like to become a fact checking expert? The CSUDH Library has you covered with our newly created Media Literacy materials which help you learn (or teach) how to think critically about all forms of media.