• Microfilm: 1844-present (many gaps before 1880).
  
  
• Online: Springfield News-Leader Index and full-text of the last three years of the Springfield News-Leader.

Springfield News-Leader Online Edition provides a seven-day abridged archive of sections, lead stories and graphics not available from other sources.

• 1981-present on microfilm.

Springfield Business Journal maintains a web site providing the text of articles, 1998 to current, searchable by keyword. Good resource for recent business activity in the region.

• 1884-1970 on microfilm.

• The Ozarks News and Historical Index. Index to Springfield Newspapers (1867-June 30, 2002). Selected topical indexing to regional periodicals primarily from the 1970s- 1990s, including the Springfield Business Journal.
  
  
• The Abstracts and Index of Items of Genealogical Interest from the Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, Newspaper collection. Housed in the Local History and Genealogy Department. A comprehensive index to obituaries, marriages, births and divorces from 1865-present.