United States Government Information: Non-Governmental Data Archives and Repositories

Non-profit and non-partisan, the APP is devoted to the idea of Constitutional government.

The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. The EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020.

Compare government websites before and after presidential inaugurations.

Digital access to U.S. Federal Documents and preservation of the governmental record strengthens democracy and citizens’ participation in it. HathiTrust coordinates collective action to build and maintain the largest independent collection of digitized and preserved U.S. Federal Documents.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Democracy's Library brings together more than 700 collections from over 50 government organizations, archived by the Internet Archive since 2006. With more than half a million documents (and counting) from local, regional, and national governments.

Reclaim The Records is a not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates. They identify important genealogical records sets that ought to be in the public domain but which are being wrongly restricted by government archives, libraries, and agencies. This group files Freedom of Information and Open Data requests to get that public data released back to the public.