US Data Rescue 2025

Safeguarding Your Research

While researchers, librarians, and archivists have been working around the clock to preserve access to this historical record of research and data, if you rely on this data for your work you are strongly urged to download key datasets/ research works.

If they are Openly licensed, you can ensure access for others by uploading to Zenodo, which is a free repository run by CERN. The Library may be able to preserve websites facing the threat of removal via our institutional subscription to ArchiveIt. Email your subject librarian to nominate a site for preservation.

Data Management Checklist (MIT)
Checklist to assist with curating data rescue efforts.
Webrecorder.net
According to an email: has archived 8TB+ of government sites, some from the End-of-Term-Archive seed list, some from EDGI Slack requests, and many sites independently
Archivebox.io
According to an email: has also archived government datasets from data.gov, CIBP, USCIS, NOAA, NASA, NSIDC, and more
Awesome-datahoarding
Provides a list of tools for web harvesting, etc.
Data Rescue Workflow
This is the workflow from the original data rescue/DataRefuge project in 2017. Many of the tools are no longer working, but the workflow is still useful. UW used this to create their workflow above. The challenge with the original project was where to store and how to make discoverable the large amounts of data captured. There is a CKAN instance with some of the 2017 data.
https://govdiff.com/
Tool created by Jerome Paulos to show side-by-side changes in government website
DIY Web Archiving Zine
A 23-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti.

Additionally, Union of Concerned Scientists (US) has produced Resources for Federal Scientists, including Guides for responding to personal attacks, defending science for the public good, handling political harassment, and safeguarding online communications.