This guide points to resources and news about accessing federal government information, and federal activities that scale back or eliminate access to federal websites, information, and datasets. It also provides links to Copley Library resources for research data, alternative data sources, and information about groups performing data and website rescue and archiving.
Information has been gathered from academic research guides, organizations' public websites, and government information listservs, and draws heavily from the University of Minnesota Library's Finding Government Information during the 2025 Administration Transition guide.
Other Universities' Research Guides on Data Access and Federal Changes
- U.S. Government Information: Weekly RoundupProvides current awareness of federal government reports and activities. The page is updated weekly to provide links to important, newsworthy, or interesting material published during the previous week. Sign up for email notifications of updates. From UC San Diego.
- Journals No Longer Being Indexed By ERICCrowdsourcing effort to figure out which journals are being removed from ERIC. From Michigan State University.
- Federal Government Information After the 2025 TransitionGuide to help understand the shift in government information and resources. From UC San Diego.
- Trump TrackersTracking tools covering a wide range of topics that help track the many changes being made by the Trump administration. From UC San Diego.
- Silencing Science TrackerCovers media reports of government actions to silence or impede climate (and other) science, including climate-related government censorship. The 2017-2020 data is available in the main table. From Columbia Law School.
- 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 a database of climate change regulations and two other climate regulation trackers. From Columbia Law School.
- 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 UC 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 and 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.
- Project 2025 Executive Action TrackerMonitors the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025, tracking the authoritarian blueprint’s executive action proposals across 20 federal agencies. Access the Tracker directly. Center for Progressive Reform.
Impact and Value of Federal Information
- America's Essential DataCollecting stories to document the value that data produced by the federal government provides for American lives and livelihoods
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