Finding Government Data Sources

Tool created by Jerome Paulos to show side-by-side changes in government websites, using the Internet Archive’s crawls.

From the Internet Archive, freely available government data, documents, records, and research.

Free, open source data, including some demographic data. Short for Federal Reserve Economic Data, FRED is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources. Created and maintained by the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

How it works: Take any .gov URL and add wayback.com right after .gov, and you'll be redirected to the Wayback Machine's archived version of the page.

Lifehacker 2/5/2025

DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos.

GODORT has complied a list of resources and toolkits related to the presidential transition.

SciOp is the curated catalog/index of Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC), an alternative infrastructure for archival and dissemination of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge. Browse or search datasets by keyword.