LibGuides: Alternative Sources for Archived Government Data: Articles On Data Rescue Efforts

Articles

Career civil service across the government fired, programs suspended - list continues to grow (Jan 28, 2025)
The Government Information Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think It Is (Jan 28, 2025) Blog post by Free Government Information
CDC removal of databases on sexual orientation, gender identity sparks alarm (Jan 31, 2025)
CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material from WaPo (Feb 1, 2025)
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals from Inside Medicine (Feb 1, 2025)
A Look at Federal Health Data Taken Offline from KFF (Feb 2, 2025)
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday (Feb 2, 2025)
DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library (Mar 17, 2025)

“We can’t do science without these,” one researcher says of the hundreds of journals no longer accessible

Why EDGI is Archiving Public Environmental Data, blog post from EDGI
Preserving federal health data by The Journalist's Resource out of the Harvard Kennedy School
404 media article citing EDGI, EOT, James Jacobs
This January 31, 2025 newsletter, Garbage Day, mentions some coordinating efforts by Health Professionals and Journalists to gather the CDC data
Lending a hand with EOT Crawl from the PEGI Project.