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Announcement re: Federal Govt Data
U.S. government sites are modifying some data, and some datasets may not be accessible on the site. Look for a notice like this on visible web pages.
To search for websites/datasets that appear to be inaccessible, check the resources on the individual tabs.
Finding Government Information during the 2025 Administration Transition: https://libguides.umn.edu/
From KFF: A Look at Federal Health Data Taken Offline: https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/a-look-at-federal-health-data-taken-offline/
To search across sites, from Boston University: https://www.FindLostData.org
The Data Rescue Project's Data Rescue Tracker: https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-tracker/
Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/ Search by URL, if you have it, or by dataset or organization name, then click on the most recent date on the calendar of results. Data is from the end of administration project that they produce every 4 years (in this case, 28 Jan 2025).
Policy Map: https://www.policymap.com/blog/purged-federal-agency-data-available Including data from CDC PLACES (Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates), the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), the Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST), & others.
ICPSR: is saving CDC data https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/ICPSR/index.html
Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/ (data not currently available until spring)
Overview
Welcome to the research guide for Nutritional Sciences, which provides detailed lists of information sources to help answer your research questions.
If you've been searching for 20 minutes or longer and can't find what you're looking for, feel free to give us a call. Your informationist can:
- Help with your literature search
- Give you tips for finding questionnaires or other study elements
- Provide one-on-one advice about your research topic
- Teach you advanced tricks for database searching
- Orient you to the library resources available through UM
- Teach you about citation management tools (EndNote, etc.) that can save you time with your bibliography
MGet It - Your Link to Online Articles at UM
More Resources
“ Public health institutions can play a key part in advancing the meaningful use of AI in public health by ensuring their staff are up to date regarding existing regulatory provisions and ethical principles for the development and use of AI technologies, thinking about how to prioritise equity in AI design and implementation, investing in systems that can securely process the large volumes of data needed for AI applications and in data governance and cybersecurity, promoting the ethical use of AI through clear guidelines that align with human rights and the public good, and considering AI's environmental impact..”
Find information on COVID-19 quickly using these resources. The Front Door searches high quality meta-analyses, literature syntheses, & clinical guidelines from multiple sources in one place.
To search in PubMed, see the links below. To find results in more resources, including preprints, see this article: Farhad Shokraneh, Rapid Response:Keeping Up with Studies on COVID-19: Systematic Search Strategies and Resources. BMJ 2020;368:m1199. You can then modify the searches to make them more focused on the precise question that you're asking.
Please note: the links below go to public PubMed, not to PubMed @ UM.
For search strategies for OVID Medline, see the link below.
For even more resources, please see the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) research guide.
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COVID-19 Front DoorA single entry point to publicly available sources of the best clinical evidence about COVID-19. From the Taubman Health Sciences Library & Dept of Learning Health Sciences.
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Searches for Ovid MedlineUse the Expert Searching tab.