Research Guides: Federal Government Data Rescue: Archives of Government Data

Data Archives

Below are links to the of the leading initiatives and resources committed to ensuring the long-term accessibility of government information as well as a listing of some of the datasets they have saved. This is a rapidly-changing environment, so please check back for more updates our contact us at library@claremont.edu if you need support in finding a specific dataset.

CDC Data on the Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
Data and Screening Tools: CDC (Center for Disease Control) Social Vulnerability Index and Environmental Justice Index
These are resources from the Center for Disease Control. We will continue updating this page, provide guidance about the data, and ways to access this information for technical and non-technical folks.
Data and Screening Tools: Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
This is Version 2 of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, released by the Council on Environmental Quality in December 2024. Although the tool remains unchanged, public access through the White House was discontinued on January 22, 2025. We re-created Version 2 and made it publicly accessible.
DataLumos
DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos.
GODORT: 2025 Presidential Transition
GODORT is a government documents library group. They have complied a list of resources and toolkits related to the presidential transition.
Harvard Dataverse
The Climate Change and Health Research Coordinating Center (CAFE) Collection includes datasets from a number of US Federal agencies to enable research at the intersection of climate and human health.
IPUMS
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services available free of charge.
Public Environmental Data Project
A volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work.
Source Cooperative - Data.gov Mirror
A project of the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, this is a regularly updated mirror of Data.gov, the US federal government data finding and storage site.
Web Archive: Council on Environmental Quality Environmental Justice Scorecard

Smaller Organizations and Projects

Archive Team Warriors
This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides serving as a hub for team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, this site will provide advice on managing your own data and rescuing it from the brink of destruction.
r/Data Hoarder
This is a subreddit of data preservation activists that aims at bringing data hoarders together to share their passion with like-minded people.