Research Guides: Tracking Federal Information and Data Resources: Locating Archived Data

Locating Recovered & Preserved Data

Data Lumos
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.
Data Rescue Project: Current Efforts
Includes links to sites publishing preserved government data from a variety of fields.
End of Term Archive
The End of Term Web Archive contains federal government websites (.gov, .mil, etc) in the Legislative, Executive, or Judicial branches of the government. Websites that were at risk of changing (i.e., whitehouse.gov) or disappearing altogether during government transitions were captured. Local government websites, or any other site not part of the federal government domain were out of scope.
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative: "How to Find Climate Data and Science the Trump Administration Doesn't Want You to See"
A blog post from EDGI Comms outlining the steps to locate and archive government data.
Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab Team: Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data
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. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal Github repositories, and PubMed.
Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is a service that allows people to visit archived versions of Web sites. Visitors to the Wayback Machine can type in a URL, select a date range, and then begin surfing on an archived version of the Web
IPUMS USA
IPUMS USA collects, preserves and harmonizes U.S. census microdata and provides easy access to this data with enhanced documentation. Data includes decennial censuses from 1790 to 2010 and American Community Surveys (ACS) from 2000 to the present.
Public Environmental Data Partners
Public Environmental Data Partners are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. It is 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. The homepage includes a nomination form for datasets and a list of datasets archived and made available.

Data Sets Recommended by UMD Researchers

These are preserved data sets that UMD researchers have identified as being important to their research. Want to recommend another data set? Send us an email at libresearchdata@umd.edu.

DataSpace: LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History
LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History is a publication of the National Park Foundation for the National Park Service and funded by the Gill Foundation. Each chapter is written and peer-reviewed by experts in LGBTQ Studies. /// Volume 2 is the chapter, "LGBTQ Civil Rights in American" by Megan E. Springate, that does not appear in the main volume.