Information <-> Democracy: An Examination of Underlying Assumptions. - Brenda Dervin (J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 1994)

Sense-making theory and practice: an overview of user interests in knowledge seeking and use. - Brenda Dervin (J. Knowl. Manag., 1998)

On studying information seeking methodologically: the implications of connecting metatheory to method. - Brenda Dervin (Inf. Process. Manag., 1999)

Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological interdisciplinarity (Invited paper). - Brenda Dervin (Inf. Res., 2003)

Reports of the demise of the "user" have been greatly exaggerated: Dervin's sense-making and the methodological resuscitation of the user - looking backwards, looking forward. - Brenda Dervin; Karen E. Fisher; Joan C. Durrance; Catherine Ross; Reijo Savolainen; Paul Solomon (ASIST, 2005)

Being user-oriented: Convergences, divergences, and the potentials for systematic dialogue between disciplines and between researchers, designers, and providers. - Brenda Dervin; Karen E. Fisher; Eric M. Meyers; Charles Naumer; Marilyn Ostergren; Carol Tenopir; Kreetta Askola; LouAnn F. Blocker; Carly Hamlett; Timothy Lepczyk; Ashley McConnell; Anthony Schlagel; et al. (ASIST, 2006)

How libraries, internet browsers, and other sources help: A comparison of sense-making evaluations of sources used in recent college/university and personal life situations by faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate users. - Brenda Dervin; CarrieLynn D. Reinhard; Zack Y. Kerr; Lynn Silipigni Connaway; Chandra Prabha; Lorraine Normore; Mei Song; Elizabeth Kelley; Sarah Adamson; Teena Berberick; Kasey Martini; Noelle Karnolt (ASIST, 2006)

Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other. Making user and audience studies matter - paper 1. - Brenda Dervin; CarrieLynn D. Reinhard (Inf. Res., 2006)

Keynote Address: Beyond communication: research as communicating. Making user and audience studies matter - paper 2. - Brenda Dervin; CarrieLynn D. Reinhard; Fei C. Shen (Inf. Res., 2006)

Predicting library, internet and other source use: A comparison of the predictive power of two user-defined categorizations of information seeking situations-nature of situations versus situation "emotions" assessments. - Brenda Dervin; CarrieLynn D. Reinhard (ASIST, 2007)

Designing for knowledge worker informings: An exemplar application of sense-making methodology. - Patricia Souto; Brenda Dervin; Reijo Savolainen (ASIST, 2008)

Deep, efficient, and dialogic study of undergraduate information seeking and use: A methodological exploration. - Brenda Dervin; Rea Devakos (ASIST, 2010)

Crossing the divide: Putting information seeking research and theory into computer science practice to make information search systems and services more effective for the user. - Carol Kuhlthau; Donald O. Case; Brenda Dervin; Marcia J. Bates; Charles Cole 001; Karen E. Fisher (ASIST, 2012)

What we know about information seeking and use and how research makes a difference in our knowing. - Brenda Dervin (Inf. Serv. Use, 2023)