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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cptfraulein on 2025-02-02 15:16:25.

tl;dr: can we archive the National Library of Medicine and/or PubMed?

Hi folks, unfortunately I am completely unversed in data hoarding and am not a techie but I am in public health and the recent set of purges has affected myself and colleagues. A huge shout out and a million thanks to all of you for being prescient and saving our publicly available datasets/sites. I don't think it's overstating to say that all of you may very well have saved our field and future, not to mention countless lives given the downstream effects of our work.

Since I don't (yet) know how to do things like archive, I wanted to flag/ask for help in terms of archiving the National Library of Medicine. I know myself and colleagues use PubMed and PubMed Central every day and I worry about articles and pdfs being pulled or unsearchable in the coming days. This includes stuff like MMWRs, which are crucial for clinical medicine and outbreak alerts.

Does anyone have an archive of either NLM or PubMed yet? If not, is anyone able to do so? Is it even possible? In my limited Googling, the only thing I kept finding was that I could scrape for specific keywords but the library is so broad that doesn't feel tenable. Thanks in advance for your help and comments. Y'all rock, so much.

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