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Research Outside The Academy

Professional Knowledge-Making in the Digital Age

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Editors:
  1. Lisa Börjesson

    1. Department of ALM, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  2. Isto Huvila

    1. Department of ALM, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  • Sheds new light on the potential of extra-academic knowledge-making as a contribution in formations of knowledge throughout society
  • Explores extra-academic knowledge as a useful resource in academy, policy development, evidence based practices, and innovation
  • Focuses on the informational dimensions, stemming from and grounded in an information
  • science perspective, which provides the means to address practical information-related issues throughout knowledge-making processes

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lisa Börjesson, Isto Huvila
    Pages 1-19

  3. Environmental Research and Knowledge Production Within Governmental Organizations

    • Bertrum H. MacDonald, Suzuette S. Soomai
    Pages 21-50

  4. Making and Publishing Knowledge in Research Institutes

    • Elina Late
    Pages 51-70

  5. Making Knowledge Work: The Function of Public Knowledge Organizations in the Netherlands

    • Lionne Koens, Bram Harkema, Patricia Faasse
    Pages 71-87

  6. Librarians Conducting Library Research: What Is Happening Outside the Academy?

    • Diane Mizrachi
    Pages 89-106

  7. Contract Archaeology

    • Isto Huvila, Lisa Börjesson
    Pages 107-122

  8. Knowledge Making in Business Organizations

    • Gunilla Widén
    Pages 123-135

  9. Grey Literature and Professional Knowledge Making

    • Joachim Schöpfel
    Pages 137-153

  10. How Knowing Changes

    • Isto Huvila
    Pages 155-170

  11. Epilogue

    • Isto Huvila, Lisa Börjesson
    Pages 171-182

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 183-189
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About this book

This book analyses the practical, information-related dimensions of professional knowledge making and communication in extra-academic organisations. It treats the sites where research takes place and where knowledge is created outside academia in the light, among other things, of new digital resources. It provides valuable insight into the practices through which extra-academic research data and results are produced and made available and the settings in which this takes place. With case studies of knowledge-making in government organizations and state research institutes, as well as in cultural and heritage institutions, this book broadens the perspective on knowledge sharing, communication and publication, and how knowing changes as a result of the professional knowledge-making practices in the digital age.


Research outside the Academy is ideal for students at all levels looking for an introduction to the topic of research and knowledge-making insociety. Moreover, researchers and professionals in the fields of library and information science and science and technology studies will find the book to be adding to previous understandings of scholarly documentation and communication.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of ALM, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Lisa Börjesson, Isto Huvila

About the editors

Lisa Börjesson works as a coordinator for research documentation at Grants Office at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.


Professor Isto Huvila holds the chair in information studies at the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Science, and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Research Outside The Academy

  • Book Subtitle: Professional Knowledge-Making in the Digital Age

  • Editors: Lisa Börjesson, Isto Huvila

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94177-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94176-9Published: 14 September 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06810-3Published: 08 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94177-6Published: 04 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 189

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Research Methodology, Communication Studies, Knowledge - Discourse, Technology and Digital Education, Education Policy

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