Information at UChicago
For additional information about the rapidly changing landscape for federal data, please check out the Office of Research’s page, Database Resources for Researchers, which is part of a series from the Office of Research on 2025 Federal Administration Actions and Updates.
Exclusive sources for UChicago researchers
Research Guides from Libraries around the Country
Tools for Archiving Datasets
GitHub Awesome Data Hoarding - Open-source list of tools related to archiving
GovDiff - Tool built by Ben Borgers and Jerome Paulos to compare government websites before and after inauguration
ICPSR - Suggest data to archive form
The Data Rescue Project
The Data Rescue Project website has been actively collecting information on preserved and archived datasets.
Data Rescue Project’s Data Tracker is a valuable resource for finding datasets that have been collected and preserved.
The Data Rescue Project’s Maintainer list shows which organizations are maintaining Federal Data on their websites.
Archives of Government Websites
End of Term Archive - The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. They run a comprehensive crawl of U.S. Government websites to capture HTML files, images (.jpeg, .png, .gif), PDF documents, spreadsheets, videos and other multimedia, as well as data in specialized formats – such as GeoJSON.
Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab- In recent months the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. The data vault includes over 300,000 datasets from data.gov
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine - Government websites and datasets contained on them have often been archived by the Internet Archive and may be accessible through their Wayback Machine