Crowd-sourced repository for U.S. federal government data and the main repository for Data Rescue Project contributions.

The Data Rescue Project started in February 2025 as a coordinated effort of three data organizations, including members of IASSIST, RDAP, and the Data Curation Network.

Our goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk. We want to know what is happening in the community so that we can coordinate focus. Efforts include: data gathering, data curation and cleaning, data cataloging, and providing sustained access and distribution of data assets.

This guide will help you to locate U.S. Federal Government data that may have been removed or redacted following the Presidential Executive Orders that went into effect on January 31, 2025. Use the menu on the left to navigate to different sections of this guide.

Please note this issue is ongoing and continues to evolve. This guide will be updated regularly as new information becomes publicly available.

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.

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 Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is a research collaborative and network of diverse professionals promoting evidence-based policy-making and public interest science that advances the Environmental Right-to-Know (ERTK).

We document, contextualize, and analyze current changes to environmental data and governance practices through multidisciplinary and cross-professional collaborative work; foster the stewardship and expansion of public knowledge through building participatory civic technologies and infrastructures; create new communities of practice to enable government and industry accountability; and promote models and tools that emphasize community participation at all scales, both within EDGI and in our public-facing tools.

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