Applied Health Sciences: Accessing Deleted Government Pages and Data

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. 

• The Medical Library Assocation (MLA)'s guide for Accessing Public Data Removed from US Government Websites
  This guide is being compiled and updated by the Medical Library Association and it includes some of the below listed resources
   
• End of Term Archive

  This site is dedicated to preserving websites that are in danger of being deleted during US Government presidential transitions.

• PolicyMap
  PolicyMap has purged data still available. See their availability statement. https://www.policymap.com/blog/purged-federal-agency-data-available

• UM Guide on Finding information during the 2025 Administration

  The University of Minnesota has developed a guide on finding information during this administration. The pages on Data and website rescue efforts and Alternative data sources would be good places to start.

• Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data, including major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal Github repositories, and PubMed. Here is information about this project: Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab

• Also look to your professional associations. Some have taken the initiative to preemptively download and make available information needed for practice. Contact them to see what has been done. 

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 the information you must have to meet your clinical and research needs. 

Since this is a quickly changing situation, let us know if there is a resource or site that we can add!