The news media has widely reported the current U.S. administration's removal and modification of federal websites and information. As academic librarians, we have also heard from faculty and researchers about their work being removed without notice, and received many questions from academics and the public about how widespread this phenomena is.  

Librarians, data experts, and others have launched many excellent projects to preserve missing information and data. In particular, we take inspiration from projects including the long-standing End of Term Archive, the newer Data Rescue Project, and many others. While removed or threatened data has been well-tracked by various data rescue groups, we hope to supplement these efforts by focusing on tracking non-data materials and information that have been impacted.    

This project is an attempt to track removed and modified government information and resources, to help the public see the scope of what has been removed or modified, and to point to where preserved copies can be found, if possible.  Below you will see a link to a form, where anyone can add entries for missing gov information, as well as to a spreadsheet, which is a publicly viewable list of all the entries we have received. We will make edits on the backend of the spreadsheet to tidy it up as needed. 

This page can be accessed at: https://z.umn.edu/trackgovinfosite