For organizations like Data & Society that produce original sociotechnical research outside of institutional centers like universities, working with the infrastructures of public knowledge can be a remarkable challenge. Independent researchers can create breathtaking, high-stakes research, but if the results of that research are not accessible and discoverable, then it has no chance of reaching its audience or making a difference in the world. Having experienced this challenge for a decade, D&S worked with expert research librarian Kathleen Burlingame to assess and overhaul our own repository of sociotechnical research. The results included updated metadata practices, new organizational typologies, and a set of best practices for making our mark on the public infrastructures of knowledge. This report, Surfacing Sociotechnical Research, lays out that process of refinement, and names clear steps that independent organizations can take to give their research the best chance of being found, cited, and used to improve the world.