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Beginning in January 2025, many federal datasets, websites, and other previously accessible resources are being taken offline to comply with executive orders, most notably CDC, EPA, and NIH data. Much of the data targeted is ostensibly related to health disparities among different demographics, especially race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Because these variables are important factors in health research, however, many large and broad-scope data sets are affected. Evidence is growing that even datasets that remain accessible on an agency’s website may have scrubbed, corrupted, or otherwise altered information. Learn more about missing or altered federal data: The Journalists Resource: overview of the current situation from the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative: advocacy group for access to environmental data Please recommend resources to be added to this guide. homepage About show all breadcrumbs Close Panel News On Wednesday, November 5, 2024, Professor Maryam Gooyabadi arrived at the Hazel Quantitative Analysis Center and called a meeting with her undergraduate research assistants to deliver an unusual—and urgent—directive: “Download everything.” All semester, the students had been working with data related to firearms and gun violence in the United States. Many of the databases—critical to the research and coursework at Wesleyan’s Center for the Study of Guns and Society—were hosted on government websites.

But now Gooyabadi feared they were in jeopardy. It was the day after the presidential election, and the incoming administration’s disparagement of research and higher education—combined with its promise of drastic budget cuts—fit a pattern that Gooyabadi had seen before, both in... “I grew up in Iran!” she says. “I know what it looks like, what it sounds like. What that [rhetoric] means to me is we are not going to have access to these things.” In a few months’ time, Gooyabadi’s intuition would prove prophetic. While federally sponsored data is a goldmine for academic experts who, like Gooyabadi, are pursuing specific lines of inquiry, it’s also invisibly crucial to all of us.

Data informs economic and environmental policy, public health interventions, and all kinds of laws and regulations. Censored or manipulated data threatens to undermine the science we rely on as a society. That’s why data disappearing from .gov websites this year sent shockwaves through the ranks of the research community. While efforts have begun to recover missing data and preserve what is thought to be at risk, this is a problem whose ultimate scope and impact remain unknown. “This is absolutely an unprecedented situation,” says James Guerrera-Sapone, Wesleyan’s research data librarian. Open Secrets -- The Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S.

politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the organization aims to create a more educated voter, an involved citizenry and a more transparent and responsive government Sunlight Foundation -- A national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the tools of civic tech, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all. Static archive ending Sept 2020. Comparative Agendas Project-- assembles and codes information on the policy processes of governments from around the world PolicyMap is a U.S.

national data and mapping tool that combines a curated, comprehensive geographic data library with mapping and analytics tools. University faculty, researchers, and students use it to create maps of up to five layers, export trend-charts with key benchmarks, download data for use in other tools and generate on-the-fly reports. Users will be prompted to create an account using their Wofford credentials during their first use of PolicyMap. PolicyMap is providing the following data that has been removed from federal websites: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln Libraries are a Congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents.

Public access to Government documents is guaranteed by public law (Title 44 U.S.C.). 302 Love Library South University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 Michael Straatmann Associate Director Collection Management According to a New York Times analysis published on February 2, 2025, "more than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down ... as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and 'gender ideology'.”

This Guide has resources for both government information seekers and rescuers, centered around disappearing U.S. Government data. There are more sites to be found, but this list will provide a starting point for anyone interested in the process of how our profession (and others) are responding to the current data crisis... Please recommend resources to be added to this guide by emailing libref@eckerd.edu. Thank you to our colleagues from the Oberlin Group of Liberal Arts College Libraries group for their thoughtful collaboration on this guide. After January 20, 2025, federal data, webpages, and other previously accessible sources of government information normally available to researchers and the public began to disappear in order to comply with executive orders.

This is an evolving situation. To learn more about missing or altered federal data: The Journalists Resource is an overview of the current situation from the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School. Beginning in January 2025, many federal datasets, websites, and other previously accessible resources, across agencies, are being taken offline to comply with executive orders. In some cases, press releases or data documentation have been removed; in others, entire datasets have been taken down. Evidence is growing that even datasets that remain accessible on an agency’s website may have scrubbed, corrupted, or otherwise altered information.

Learn more about missing, altered or restored federal data: New York Times (02/11/25): Judge Orders C.D.C. to Temporarily Restore Deleted HHS, CDC & FDA Web Pages. The temporary restraining order was granted in response to a lawsuit filed against the federal government by Doctors for America (DFA), a progressive advocacy group representing physicians, and the nonprofit Public Citizen, a consumer... Previously restored pages include the Atlas Tool, used by policymakers to track rates of infectious diseases such as HIV and STIs; pages that explained the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, which monitors adolescent health;... Silencing Science Tracker: joint initiative of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, tracking government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research since the November 2016 election

The banner above is displayed on the CDC's Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) webpage. This is only one of several announcements by the Trump administration declaring changes to how data has ceased or collection methods altered by federal statistical agencies. A timeline of alterations in data collection and access to federal data since January 2025: These are only some of the restrictions being placed on access to crucial public data. However, it is a source of hope that individuals and organizations are preserving this data that policy makers and people rely on to improve their everyday lives. "People rely on data from federal agencies every day – often without realizing it."

Read the new article by Maggie Levenstein and John Kubale from the University of Michigan: https://theconversation.com/data-that-taxpayers-have-paid-for-and-rely-on-is-disappearing-heres-how-its-happening-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-251787 Population Reference Bureau1111 19th St. NWSuite 400Washington, DC 20036

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