Welcome
Welcome to the resource guide for the UIC College of Pharmacy - Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes, & Policy. Here you will find resources to support student and faculty research and education.
Note: Some of these resources are made available through the UIC Library, so you must be logged into the library in order to access those resources.
Accessing Deleted Government Pages and Data
Webinar Opportunity
Finding Grey Literature: Weathering the Storm of Disappearing Data
Wednesday, May 28 at 10:30am ET / 9:30am CT / 8:30am MT / 7:30am PT
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Due to the deletion of data and pages regarding many minority populations by the current US government administration, health science librarians recognize that this missing information is critical for delivering evidence-based care to the most vulnerable of those in our care. Various libraries, organizations and other entities are working to maintain access. Below are options for accessing this information.
Health Specific
- Restored CDCIndependent volunteer based project that pulled code and information from CDC pages prior to Jan 20, 2025. **These are static pages**.
- Downloadable CDC Guidelines (Alt site)A personal website that is archiving deleted CDC guidelines because of their topic (contraception/family planning, sexual health, vaccines, women & children, youth, intimate partner and sexual violence). Documents are continually added as they are recovered.
- American College of Obstetricians and GynecologistsWebpage of endorsed clinical guidelines (downloadable).
- Reproduced reproductiverights.gov pagetheSkimm is publishing the content of reproductiverights.gov to ensure that the critical information and resources it outlined remain available to women and families. The content appears below as it did on reproductiverights.gov on Jan. 15, 2025 when it was last saved in the Internet Archive.
- County Health Rankings & RoadmapsProgram from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
- City Health DashboardOver forty health measures across 970+ cities from NYU Langone Health.
Aggregate Topics (includes health)
- PolicyMapPolicyMap has purged data still available. See their availability statement. https://www.policymap.com/blog/purged-federal-agency-data-available
- SimplyAnalyticsHas Purged data still available, including CDC and other health data.
- End of Term ArchiveThis site is dedicated to preserving websites that are in danger of being deleted during US Government presidential transitions.
- Data Rescue ProjectThe Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of 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.
Getting help
As we navigate this disruption to our information system, please remember to email us or make appointments. We are here to assist you in finding information.
Since this is a ongoing situation, let us know if there is a resource or site that we can add!
- Also contact your professional associations. Some have taken the initiative to preemptively download and make needed information available.
- LifeHacker Blog on finding deleted dataYou may have to find/download/rescue the data yourself. This post by LifeHacker gives instructions on how to get information from the Internet Archive/Way Back Machine.
Go to the Data Rescue Project and/or contact us to get support on archiving data if you have found some that needs a home.
Faculty Librarian
Attributions
Fernando Herranz created the framework and developed content for this guide.
Sarah Sherman, MLIS, developed content for this guide. She is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed a joint practicum between UIC's Library of the Health Sciences and Northwestern's Galter Health Sciences Library in Fall 2017. She is currently looking for library opportunities; email her at sasherm32@gmail.com.