Alternative Sources for Archived Government Data
About This Guide and How to Use It?
Welcome to this resource guide "Alternative Sources for Archived Government Data"!
To navigate this LibGuide, please use the tabs at the top of this box - Welcome, About, How to Use this Guide - as well as the tabs in the main menu of the webpage.
The LibGuide is created and maintained by Anna Xiong, Head of the Kelley Center for Government Information Resources & Civic Engagement, also the Federal Depository Coordinator. For questions or suggestions, you can contact her at jax2@rice.edu or govhelp@rice.edu, or call 713-348-6212.
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Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since FridayPublished Feb. 2, 2025, New York Times.
What resources does this Guide contain?
This Guide has resources for both government information seekers and rescuers.
It contains a partial list of workarounds you might try. The resources include links to
- most comprehensive national collaborative data rescue efforts' trackers, maintainers list, other related resources
- Fondren Library subscribed databases (Note: The links to Fondren Library subscribed databases on this guide require a Rice ID for access.)
- tools for searching and using tangible government publications held at Fondren Library as alternative teaching and research resources
- numeric and non-numberic government publication resources
How to navigate the resources on this Guide?
To navigate this LibGuide, please use the tabs at the top of this box - Welcome, About, How to Use this Guide - as well as the tabs in the main menu of the webpage. When you use the tabs on the main menu of this web page,
- if you are a researcher looking for data, click "For Researchers".
- if you want to volunteer and contribute to save government data at risk, click "For Data Rescuers".