Health Sciences Research and Data Librarian
Alternate Sources for US Government Data
The 2025 transition between presidential administrations has been a rapidly changing landscape, widely discussed across the news media.
This guide points to resources and news about accessing federal government information, and the Trump administration's and/or Congress's actions that scale back or eliminate access to federal websites, information, and datasets. It also provides links to groups performing data and website rescue and archiving.
Information has been gathered from academic research guides, organizations' public websites, and government information listservs.
Research Guides and Trackers from America's Universities
- U.S. Government Information: Weekly RoundupThis page is an attempt to provide current awareness of federal government reports and activities. The page will be updated weekly to provide links to important, newsworthy, or interesting material published during the previous week. The goal is to keep the links to a manageable number for readers, not to be a comprehensive listing. Managed by the UCSD Library
- Trump TrackersThese tools may be helpful in keeping track of the many changes being made by the Trump administration. Managed by the UCSD Library
- Silencing Science TrackerThe Silencing Science Tracker is a joint initiative of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund at Columbia University. It tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information, since the November 2016 election.
- Climate Deregulation TrackerThe Climate Deregulation Tracker identified steps taken by the Trump administration and Congress to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures. The tracker is linked to our database of climate change regulations and our two other climate regulation trackers: the Climate Reregulation Tracker covering the Biden administration and the Climate Backtracker covering the second Trump administration. Managed by Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University
- GovSpeak ErrorsTracks the ongoing uncertainty of federal websites under the new administration. Frequent link checks provide a working copy of webpages that appear to be down/missing. Continually edited with a final list at the end of the month. From University of California San Diego.
- Government Information: Eliminated, Suspended, Etc.Tracks the Trump Administration's elimination and suspension of access to U.S. federal government information. From Sacramento State University.
- 2025 Administration Transition Information & ResourcesFrom Council on Governmental Relations (COGR), the national authority on federal policies and regulations affecting U.S. research institutions.
- Government Information Data RescueCollection of resources relating to data rescue efforts. From American University.
- Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)Provides free access to data generated from efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporting projects and partnerships. OEDI contains data from all aspects of energy research, development, and operations,
- Project 2025 Executive Action TrackerThe Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact are monitoring the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025, tracking the authoritarian blueprint’s executive action proposals across 20 federal agencies.