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The DSS is available on-line from the following data centers :
 On-line
retrieval from the MAST Archive by
position or from a specific survey plate
Space Telescope European
Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) @ the European Southern Observatory
(ESO).
Canadian Astronomical
Data Center (CADC).
Centre de Donnees
astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS).
National Astronomical Observatory
of Japan (NAOJ)
Leicester
Database and Archive Service (LEDAS).
SkyView at
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).
Astronote.org Archive in Korea.
The Astronomical
Society of the Pacific previously published a subset of these
data to the community on CDROM (they have now been discontinued).
 The
Digitized Sky Survey (DSS-I) which is a 10x compressed copy of
the first epoch POSS-I Red and SERC-J Blue surveys on 102 CDROMs.
This
was
primarily for Observatories, Astronomical Institutions and professional
astronomers as this retains virtually all the detail in the original
data.
Real
Sky which is a 100x compressed
copy of the first epoch POSS-I Red survey on 9 CDROMs, together
with a an 11 CDROM set, based on southern SERC-J plates from
the UK Schmidt. Both are suitable for amateur astronomers and
educators.
STScI
originally provided the GETIMAGE software for accessing the DSS and
continues to use this internally.
A number
of interesting astronomical websites use DSS images to illustrate a
variety of astronomical objects. Here are a few links that have been
reported to us.
 European
Homepage for HST - FITS Liberator Images
Charles
Shahar's color images
Galaxy
Map
Mike's
Astrophotos
Messier
Marathon finder charts
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