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The MUSE-Wide project page describes a survey of well-studied deep fields and links to its first data release.

The Astronomical Data Archives Center at Japan's National Astronomical Observatory provides astronomy archive services.

Explore the UK deep-sea sediment repository and research facility at the National Oceanography Centre through BOSCORF.

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database provides astronomical object data and reports recent additions to its catalog.

The Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory shares current conditions and downloadable wave, temperature, pressure, wind, and tide data.

Explore Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory project data, including its models, test-bed data, and tools.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory provides solar imagery and data from instruments studying the Sun’s atmosphere.

Drought Central is a drought observatory from CNR IBE, with updates on drought conditions and reports based on Copernicus data.

DARTS is JAXA’s space science data archive, covering fields including astronomy, solar physics, lunar and planetary science, and microgravity.

UFZ’s data investigation portal organizes sample, field, logger, file-based archive, and geodata catalog resources.

INPTDAT provides access to research data in applied plasma physics and plasma medicine, covering materials, processes, and related fields.

China’s National Microbiology Data Center provides microbial science data and knowledge resources across microbiology and related fields.

Access Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility data collected through routine operations and scientific field experiments.

BAMF’s research data center provides migration and integration data for research, including register and survey data.

The Valais statistical and financial equalization service coordinates statistical surveys and provides information to data users.

CARS shares data from the first release of the Close AGN Reference Survey, a spatial survey of active galaxies.

The Cross-National Equivalent File harmonizes variables across household panel surveys and provides researchers access to comparable cross-national data.

Marine Data Exchange provides access to survey data and reports collected for offshore renewable energy.

ZEW's Research Data Centre provides external researchers with data from business and expert surveys.

BUAP’s open access repository contains documents deposited by professors and researchers, with communities, collections, and search fields.

The World Stress Map compiles information on Earth's present-day crustal stress field for research.

Peek is Kyoto University’s digital archive, with collections including photographs, field notes, films, and records.

Bavaria's surveying administration provides free geodata downloads, bulk access, map services, and a gallery.

Data.Brno presents city information through long-term and real-time series, open data formats, applications, surveys, and Brno in Numbers.