Managing Your Data

Starting in the early months of 2025, access to a variety of federally-created and/or federally-hosted datasets has been limited or removed due to various Presidential Executive Orders. Researchers from a variety of disciplines use this data, and continued access is key to their work. 

Librarians, among others, have worked to gather, organize, and share where these datasets have been archived or are currently hosted. This page serves as a resource for some of this information but is by no means complete. If you have questions about locating a particular dataset, or finding data on a topic, either federal or not, please reach out to us at librarydataservices@umass.edu. 

The Data Rescue project is a collaboration between several data organizations, many of which are also library-adjacent. They include IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network. 

They maintain the Data Rescue Tracker, which tracks specific datasets that we taken down from public sites, and where it is hosted currently. It also shows sets that are yet to be archived but which are in progress. 

Their site also includes information about the many groups that are working on data rescue and archving, and on resources and tools for performing data rescue. There is also a list of alternative resources with datasets, some of which will be listed further down this page as well. 

There are many resources that are also collecting federal datasets, or which may have datasets on similar topics to the ones that you're looking for. 

The Libraries have access to PolicyMap, which has datasets and a map creation tool.

Repositories such as ICPSR have data on social and behaviorial science topics. Other resources will be added to this page as they become available or we become aware.

Many libraries are creating resource pages like this one with additional information about finding and accessing data. a selection is shared here. For a complete list, see the "Libraries supporting data rescue" link below.