This guide will point to resources that identify and track steps taken by the Trump administration and Congress to scale back or eliminate access to federal government information. It also provides links to groups performing data and website rescue.

U.S. government websites may remove or reorganize publicly available content due to changes in administration, agency restructuring, website redesigns, or other archival practices. When this happens, previously accessible reports, datasets, or publications may no longer be available at their original URLs.

This page provides guidance for those seeking such materials. There are a number of trusted archives and repositories maintained by libraries, research institutions, and nonprofit organizations that aim to preserve continued access to government information.

We’ve built this project on our long-standing commitment to preserving government records and making public information available to everyone. Libraries play an essential role in safeguarding the integrity of digital information. By preserving detailed metadata and establishing digital signatures for authenticity and provenance, we make it easier for researchers and the public to cite and access the information they need over time.

Climate Mirror is a distributed effort conducted by volunteers, in conjunction with efforts from institutions such as University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, and the Internet Archive, to mirror and back up U.S. Federal Climate Data. It started pre-emptively out of concerns based on President Trump's past anti-science statements, and has continued into his administration's time in office.

Data Refuge is a community-driven, collaborative project to preserve public climate and environmental data. When we document the many ways diverse communities use data, we can also advocate for future data. We want to hear your data stories!

The 2024 End of Term Web Archive initiative has officially begun. The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative effort which takes place every four years to preserve a record of U.S. government websites for historical and research purposes. The 2024 End of Term Web Archive partners include the Internet Archive, University of North Texas, Stanford University, Library of Congress, U.S. Government Publishing Office, and National Archives and Records Administration.

End of Term crawls have been completed for term transitions every four years since 2004. The results of these efforts are preserved in the End of Term Web Archive and can be explored here using full text search or downloaded as bulk datasets. In total, over 500 terabytes of government websites and data have been archived through the End of Term Web Archive efforts.

Collects, preserves, harmonizes, and documents U.S. census and ACS microdata and summary tables, offering online analysis tools and custom extracts for researchers

GPO has statutory responsibility for producing Government information products and for disseminating government information to the public on behalf of all three branches of the Federal Government, per Title 44 of the United States Code.

"A crowd-sourced repository for valuable government data DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos. Please consider making a monetary donation to sustain DataLumos."