Selected agencies
For additional data sources see, Guide to Finding Data & Statistics.
Data Rescue Project: Clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk; led by IASSIST, RDAP, and the Data Curation Network. Excellent starting point when hoping to locate a removed dataset.
Find Lost Data: Search for datasets across various sites including the Data Rescue Project, Harvard's data.gov mirror, Internet Archive's CDC datasets, and more. From Boston University's Center for Health Data Science.
End of Term Web Archive: Captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. The EOT has preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 and is accepting URL nominations for the End of Term 2024 Web Archive.
Internet Archive Wayback Machine: Snapshot of internet crawls; search by URL to view captured versions of a website.
ICPSR DataLumos: Repository for archived copies of public government data; accepts requests for dataset preservation.
Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab: Mirror of Data.gov, federal Github repositories, and PubMed to to preserve U.S. federal public data.
Social Explorer: Library-subscribed database with data preserved from the U.S. Census Bureau, CDC, FBI, National Historical Geographic Information System as well as other government and commercial bodies. Request to have a dataset preserved.
