Look for Broken Links on “End of Term Web Archive”

The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative of several partners that “collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.”  The Archive has preserved .gov websites, as well as federal content in other domains and FTP’d datasets, since 2008.  End of Term (EOT) collections include “a wide range of file types preserved in WARC files,” including HTML files, PDF documents, spreadsheets, images, videos, and GeoJSON.  Access to EOT collections is available via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.  At the Wayback Machine Collection Search, select your desired “End of Term,” then enter your keyword search.  Here’s an example.  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Public Health Professionals Gateway has a National Health Initiatives, Strategies & Action Plans page that includes a link to the “HHS Equity Action Plan,” but that link currently takes you to a “Page Not Found.”  At the Wayback Machine Collection Search, select “End Of Term (US Gov 2024),” then search for “hhs equity action plan.”  The search retrieves over 55 items, and the system allows you to post-filter by date.  The 3rd retrieved item is an “Advancing Equity at HHS” page, and it includes working links to PDF documents of the “HHS Equity Action Plan” in five languages.