A range of US government resources, largely focused on public health, equality, diversity and inclusion, gender identity, the environment and social programmes, have been impacted by executive orders and actions taken by the Trump administration in 2025. This guide aims to signpost ways to keep up with removals and modifications to content; to identify alternative sources for removed data, and to flag data or resources which may be at risk in the future. RCSI users should note that as well as information and data originating from the US, removals and changes could also affect US-hosted data.
Alternative sources of US Federal Government Information (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Blog from LSHTM Library documenting changes and alternative sources for removed data
Finding Government Information during the 2025 Administration Transition (University of Minnesota)
Extensive guide from University of Minnesota Libraries
Wikipedia: 2025 United States government online resource removals
Includes detail on the changes made to government websites, as well as datasets deleted and some of the reactions to the changes.
A crowdsourcing effort to track removed and modified US government information and resources
Webrecorder US Government Web Archive (some also available as mirror sites at https://govarchive.us/)
Access US Government websites as they were at the end of the Biden administration.
The End of Term Archive also work with the Internet Archive's Wayback machine to preserve sites during each government transition.
The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network. Our goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk. We want to know what is happening in the community so that we can coordinate focus. Efforts include: data gathering, data curation and cleaning, data cataloging, and providing sustained access and distribution of data assets.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
ERIC is a key indexing database for education and the social sciences. On March 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to close the Department of Education. ERIC is funded by the Department of Education under the Institution of Education Sciences (IES).
17/06/2025 ERIC Indexing Update
Following the award of the most recent ERIC contract, IES and the ERIC team conducted an analysis of the recency, coverage and operating status of ERIC’s current sources of content. Based on that analysis, ERIC will no longer index 159 sources (58 journals and 101 non-journals). More than 1,800 sources, including 1,215 journals and 608 non-journals will continue to be indexed. The updates can be viewed in full at ERIC’s listing of journals and non-journals. IES have not provided a listing of titles no longer available in ERIC. There is a grassroots effort to track the deselected journals titles here
Journals cut from ERIC will not have content added to ERIC going forward. Current guidance is that all records currently in ERIC will remain available. This means that if you ran a search in ERIC previously, those results should remain in the index. It is future journal issues that will be missing.
IES has released new resources to assist users with learning more about ERIC:
The November 2024 journal title list is viewable here and has been preserved by the WayBack Machine.
Other resources such as National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) will also be affected by changes to the US Department of Education.
PubMed (MEDLINE) and ClinicalTrials.gov
So far these two US government produced resources have not been affected, but some are planning contingencies in case of future difficulties. This summary from a collaboration of German organisations led by IQWIG sets out Options if PubMed (MEDLINE) and ClinicalTrials.gov are no longer available.