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CLAPOP is the Dutch CLARIN portal for language resources and research data.

The Dutch National Archives supports public access to information and helps governments manage and publish records for long-term preservation.

Otzar HaHochma's digital library contains Jewish books, including religious, research, and Hebrew-language works.

Earth-prints is an open archive from Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, with articles, theses, books, and conference materials.

The Robert Koch Institute's Research Data Centre collects research data used in scientific projects and published in journals.

The Eurac Research CLARIN Centre is a repository for language data hosted by its Institute for Applied Linguistics in South Tyrol.

The Human Ageing Genomic Resources include curated databases on ageing-related genes, dietary restriction, and longevity.

AZON is an open access platform for scientific resources, including books, publications, teaching materials, images, audio, and databases.

Cambium provides datasets from the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, including human electrophysiology recordings.

Berlin’s Tierstimmenarchiv holds about 120,000 animal sound recordings for research, documentation, and long-term preservation.

The Primate Cell Type Database describes nonhuman primate cell recordings and related electrophysiology and morphology data.

FishSounds inventories research on fish sound production, with search by fish group, recordings, or references.

UNAM's open data portal shares information from university collections spanning science, art, culture, and digital heritage.

Plants of Taiwan integrates plant names, digitized specimens, and botanical books in a searchable information system.

The National University of Colombia repository lets visitors search and browse university communities, journals, and recent academic submissions.

J-STAGE provides access to full-text articles from Japanese academic journals and lists journal titles and subject areas.

Browse ASTM's catalog of standards, publications, journal articles, manuals, and technical papers.

The Global Catalogue of Microorganisms helps culture collections manage and share information about their holdings and provides access to microbial resource records.

Winterthur’s data and statistics office collects, processes, and analyzes city data on population, housing, economy, culture, environment, and transport.

Ostrava’s open data catalog organizes datasets across topics such as transport, culture, population, public services, and the environment.

Venice’s open data catalog organizes city datasets by themes including culture, mobility, population, economy, and the environment.

Drohobych's city community open data portal lists public datasets across topics including construction, culture, transport, education, and finance.

The World Values Survey provides survey data and documentation on political culture and social values.

CoCoON presents collections of digital oral corpora through a platform focused on oral language resources.