The Archivportal-D celebrates its birthday. On 24 September 2014, it was ceremonially released during the opening event of the 84th German Archive Day in Magdeburg. Since then, the platform has undergone continuous development and today offers a comprehensive range of archive information and digital archive material.

Only 10 years after the foundation of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, a university archive was established in 1956 and the first files of the young university were taken over. However, it took until 1981 before a full-time archivist was hired for the first time and the archive became available to the general public.