Subject and Course Guides: Institute for Juvenile Research: Finding Articles

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.

Health Specific

Restored CDC
Independent volunteer based project that pulled code and information from CDC pages prior to Jan 20, 2025. **These are static pages**.
Data Associated with Restored CDC site
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 Gynecologists
Webpage of endorsed clinical guidelines (downloadable).
Reproduced reproductiverights.gov page
theSkimm 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 & Roadmaps
Program from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
City Health Dashboard
Over forty health measures across 970+ cities from NYU Langone Health.

Aggregate Topics (includes health)

PolicyMap
PolicyMap has purged data still available. See their availability statement. https://www.policymap.com/blog/purged-federal-agency-data-available
SimplyAnalytics
Has Purged data still available, including CDC and other health data.

End of Term Archive
This site is dedicated to preserving websites that are in danger of being deleted during US Government presidential transitions.
Data Rescue Project
The 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 data
You 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.

Data Sources

Note: some government data has been removed and/or replaced. If you are having trouble finding data see "Accessing Deleted Government Pages and Data" above for getting help.

ICPSR : Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
Archives of social science data for research and instruction.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use.

CDC Data Sets
Data sources include the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
American Fact Finder
Use Census Data to get a sense of demographics and much more.

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Databases

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL covers literature related to nursing and allied health.
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.
DARE : Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
Database of evidence-based systematic reviews of diagnostic tests, public health, pharmacology, surgery, psychology and the health care system.
DARE contains abstracts of systematic reviews that have been quality-assessed. Each abstract includes a summary of the review and critical commentary about the overall quality. DARE covers a broad range of health related interventions and includes over 3000 abstracts of reviews in fields such as diagnostic tests, public health, health promotion, pharmacology, surgery, psychology and the organization and delivery of health care.

DARE is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK.
EMBASE : Excerpta Medica Database
Database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research. From 1974 to present.

Tip: If you have problems with off campus access, use AnyConnect VPN. To install, go to AnyConnect VPN and make sure you select the Library-Resources group.
EMBASE is an abstract and indexing database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research. It currently contains more than 15 million records from Excerpta Medica Database (1974 to present) and selected Medline records (1966-present). Currently the Library does not own the archives of Embase from 1947 to 1973.
ERIC on EBSCOhost
Our EBSCOhost databases will be moving to a new user interface starting Monday, May 19th, 2025 with the exception of CINAHL which will transition on August 1st.
For additional information about searching and managing results, please visit the EBSCOhost Transition Center.
Please send additional queries or comments to: ask@uic.libanswers.com
ERIC is the world's largest education database. Published by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI).
Google Scholar
This is a search engine that focuses on academic output. This link is proxied for UIC users off campus so you can download full text.
Ovid
Platform for ebooks, journals and databases in clinical medicine, nursing, allied health sciences, and psychology. Limited to 125 simultaneous users.
Online books, journals and databases in clinical medicine, nursing, allied health sciences, and psychology.
PsycArticles
Now called APA PsyArticles and is published by the American Psychological Association and Canadian Psychological Association.
Articles found in the publications of the American Psychological Association and Canadian Psychological Association.
PsycINFO
Psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, sociology, business, education, etc.
PsycINFO contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from materials in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Updated weekly.
PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's to present.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. Pub Med includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Scopus
Find the work of a specific author or lab. Track through citations and references.
Web of Science
Largest citation database in science, engineering, medicine and technology; also the social sciences, arts and humanities are represented.

Government Resources

CDC: Mental Health
Resources and Data
Consumer Health: MedlinePlus Child Mental Health
A consumer health focused website from the NIH that has a variety of resources and links. Note that the current administration has been editing, removing, or otherwise altering information on MedLine Plus. Verify evidence with other sources.
National Commission on Children and Disasters
2010 Report to the President and Congress. There has not been an update of this report.
National Institute of Mental Health
A Division of the NIH
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration
Treatment of Children with Mental Illness
Handout available from NIMH in English and Spanish on children and mental health.

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Institute for Juvenile Research: Finding Articles

Accessing Deleted Government Pages and Data

Data Sources

Note: some government data has been removed and/or replaced. If you are having trouble finding data see "Accessing Deleted Government Pages and Data" above for getting help.

Databases

Government Resources

Richard J. Daley Library

Library of the Health Sciences, Chicago

Library of the Health Sciences, Peoria

Crawford Library of the Health Sciences, Rockford

UIC Law Library