Alternative Sources for Archived Government Data

The Data Rescue Project (originally started on BlueSky with resources shared on Google) shows current collaborative data rescue efforts, tracks the status and availability of resources, and offers downloads of rescued data.

Generalist repository available to help with data publication, storage, and preservation.

The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. The EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. The main coordinated effort to archive websites; datasets may or may not be accessible.

This guide will point to resources that identify and track steps taken by the Trump administration and Congress to scale back or eliminate access to federal government information. It also provides links to groups performing data and website rescue.

Free, open source data, including some demographic data. Short for Federal Reserve Economic Data, FRED is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources. Created and maintained by the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Harvard Law School Library's archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov.

A robust repository for research data, hosted by Harvard University

"Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data" - Team focused on mirroring data on non-government servers.

ICPSR is an international consortium of more than 810 academic institutions and research organizations. ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 350,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 23 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

"On the Internet Archive's main page, enter the URL of the page you want to read into the Wayback Machine search bar. When the results appear, hover over any calendar date with a blue circle and select a time from the pop-up, which indicates when a snapshot of the page was taken. Depending on the page you're searching for, you may need to navigate back into 2024."

Saint Louis University's collection of preserved data and websites.

Mirrored and archived public data on locally hosted git server. Includes retrieved data sets from CDC, NIH, and NOAA