The Levéltári Közlemények has been a continuously operating archival publication since 1923 – with the exception of a forced hiatus between 1947 and 1953 – and is the journal of the National Archives of the Hungarian National Archives. The annually published periodical was created – in the words of its founding editor-in-chief, National Archivist Dezső Csánki – with the aim of “explaining the equipment, history and material of the archives, mainly from a Hungarian perspective” and “publishing strictly scientific papers based on archival sources”. The goal has not changed even in its second hundred years; Levéltári Közlemények continues to publish primarily previously unpublished, original, high-quality research-based studies related to archival matters, and also provides an opportunity for historical studies, source publications, and reviews, with its thematic issues connecting to events that offer the possibility of historical parallels, are at the forefront of interest, and discuss issues of concern to the archival profession.

The Levéltári Közlemények uses REAL-MTAK as its repository.