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Get involved: The Internet Archive is once again leading a coalition to collect and preserve government documents and data that are at risk during presidential transition periods. The End of Term Harvest has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. They are currently accepting URL nominations for the End of Term 2024 Web Archive.
Wayback Machine's guide on how to preserve pages: Here or Nominate a URL
Milwaukee Independent: US national climate reports are disappearing from federal websites According to the Milwaukee Independent, websites for the national assessments and the U.S. Global Change Research Program were down as of June 30, with no links, notes, or referrals elsewhere. (Aug 11 2025)
NPR: The second Trump administration implemented 70% more changes to federal environmental websites compared to his first term The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative found that “in the first 100 days of the first Trump administration, there were 371 important changes made to websites, while in the same period this year there were 632 changes.” (Aug 8 2025)
SF Chronicle: Trump’s war on information meets a dedicated adversary University librarians Volunteer data preservationists are racing to save decades —and petabytes—of scientific research from the Trump administration’s authoritarian information purge. (May 2 2025)
Nature: Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages. (Feb 7 2025)
Vox: The man trying to capture the internet before it disappears The Trump administration is purging some government websites. The director of the Wayback Machine explains what we can do about it. (Feb 11 2025)
NYT: Government Science Data May Soon Be Hidden. Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Data scientists, data archivists, and data librarians are working to keep it available. (Mar 21 2025)
NPR: Interview with Internet Archive’s Mark Graham “Six weeks into the new administration, Wayback Machine director Graham said, the Internet Archive had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that had existed on U.S. government websites that were expunged after Trump's inauguration.” (Mar 23 2025)
InfoToday: Data Preservation in 2025 The blizzard of executive orders in the first few weeks of the second Trump presidency overwhelmed many, particularly librarians concerned about preserving government datasets. Confronted with sudden data whiteout conditions, we experienced snow blindness. Not that we didn’t know it was coming. We went through this during the first Trump presidency as well. It was the speed that unnerved us. (April 2025)
IEEE Spectrum: How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets (Apr 1 2025)
New Yorker: The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge “Your tax dollars at work”: Hundreds of administration staffers are deleting, sometimes gleefully, huge swaths of public information from government web sites. Enter “Data Hoarders” (Mar 14 2025)
For more:
Newsjunkie EOT & Science blog
Internet Archive Blogs: Update on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive
End of Term Web Archive: Latest Press
Learn more about the threat here.
End of Term (EOT) Partners
Internet Archive
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)
Common Crawl
Stanford University Libraries
University of North Texas Libraries
Library Innovation Lab Harvard Law School
Internet Archive EOT Main Page
Internet Archive. Blog and Citations
Newsjunkie. Internet Archive's Mark Graham Interview
Newsjunkie. Erasurehead: The future of public science reporting under Trump II
Newsjunkie. Mark Schapiro Interview
Newsjunkie. EDGI's Gretchen Gehrke Interview
Newsjunkie. EOT & Science blog
Newsjunkie. White House replaces health site with COVID disinformation
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Resources for Researchers and Scholars under threat in the United States
Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Tracking government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information
Data Rescue Project. The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology) , RDAP (Research Data Access & Preservation), and members of the Data Curation Network. Their 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. You can read more about our efforts on our Resources about the Data Rescue Project page.