Disappearing Government Information

From NYT Feb. 2, 2025. More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday [Jan. 31, 2025] afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes and scientific research, among many other topics. Doctors, researchers and other professionals often rely on such government data and advisories. Some government agencies appear to have removed entire sections of their websites, while others are missing only a handful of pages.

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From Washington Post, Jan. 21, 2025. The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, according to nearly a dozen current and former officials and other people familiar with the matter.

Contains a list of Rescue Efforts, Links, Articles, and More. This document is being continually updated to provide the latest information.

The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. The EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020.

The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has released their archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov.
This is the first release in their new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use.

From Inside Higher Ed Jan. 29, 2025. A team of scholars has worked since November to archive resources that are valuable to themselves and the public—just in case they were taken down.

The Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool has been downloaded and re-hosted. This invaluable website and data resource.is available at this link.