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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)
Find Help
The research guide for Environmental Health Sciences provides detailed lists of information sources to help answer your research questions. In addition, please contact me for assistance any time that you're using library resources. I can:
- Help with your literature search or provide advice about your research topic
- Give you tips for finding questionnaires or other study elements
- Teach you advanced techniques for database searching
- Orient you to the library resources available through UM
- Teach you about citation management tools (EndNote, Mendeley, etc.) that can save you time creating citations & bibliographies
Visualizing Urban Inequality: The Cost of Environmental Injustice in Our Cities. Read about how you can visualize data regarding the environment using this tool. https://policymap.wpengine.com/blog/visualizing-urban-inequality-cost-environmental-injustice-cities
The Heat-Related Illness and Temperature map shows the rate of emergency department (ED) visits associated with heat-related illness (HRI) per 100,000 ED visits by region (as defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) for the selected day using data available through the National Syndromic Surveillance Program. The colors on the map show the average maximum temperature by county for the same day and year, using data from the National Center for Environmental Information. Note, the HRI data is updated daily and may adjust to become more accurate as more data comes in.
Access the database here: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/Applications/heatTracker/
High-quality, open-source legal data developed or curated by the Center for Public Health Law Research at the Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Free, detailed legal information that is built to objectively capture nuance & to connect you to the actual laws & policies.
Two ways to explore the data. The two new exploring modes allow you to see jurisdictions where any of the answer selections are present, and where all of the selections are present. In other words, the site now supports “or” and “and” queries.
Access the database here: https://lawatlas.org/
Finding Covid-19 Evidence
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.
- 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.
- Searches for Ovid MedlineUse the Expert Searching tab.