Künstlerzeitschriften verbreiteten sich überall in der Welt ab Ende der 1960er Jahre. Sie waren ein Mittel der Kommunikation zwischen Grafikern, Schriftstellern, Fotografen und Künstlern, die mit neuen Medien arbeiteten. Auch in der DDR wurde dieses Medium von der jüngeren Künstlergeneration entdeckt, die sich selbst vom sozialistischen Realismus distanzieren wollten und nicht nur ihre künstlerischen Ideen, sondern auch oppositionelle Meinungen teilten, was schnell die Stasi auf sie aufmerksam machte. Die Sammlung "Künstlerzeitschriften der DDR" in der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) hat ihren Ursprung zu Zeiten der DDR, als Künstler der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek Grafiken zum Kauf anboten.
The Klub Közlöny (Club Gazette) was the self-published newspaper of the Közgáz-klub (Economics Club) at the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences (MKKE) between 1976–1987. In the newspaper, articles were published about the club’s activities and also cultural and political topics. In contrast to the official organ of the Communist Youth League (KISZ) titled Közgazdász, there were more direct and honest writings about life at the university in the uncensored Klub Közlöny, and its tone was many times more critical of the party leadership of the university. The aim of its creators was to galvanize the students and to develop the culture of debate. The issues are preserved in the archive of the Corvinus University and in the National Széchényi Library.
The private collection of musician, DJ, radio journalist, and educator Attila Koszits is the primary source on rock and underground (especially New Wave) culture of the last half century in Pécs, a city in southern Hungary. The collection contains periodicals, photo documentation, literature of music, bootleg recordings, and music recorded on discs and cassette tapes.
Krzysztof Skiba's archive is a private collection of photos, movies, zines, books, articles, and leaflets documenting the alternative culture phenomena that Skiba participated in during the 1980s. The majority of the collection covers the street happenings created by the Gallery of Maniacal Activities in Łódź, the activities of anarchist Alternative Society Movement in Gdańsk, the very first years of the punk cabaret Big Cyc, and the first exhibition of the third circuit papers and magazines co-organized by Skiba in 1989.