The UK's eUptake project examined why researchers do or do not use advanced ICT and has compiled recommendations to increase use. The report, e-Research Community Engagement Findings, lists some of the reasons researchers are timid about eResearch. The report begins:

"Researchers are often not aware of the potential of distributed systems or of the issues involved in developing and using them. This means that they find it difficult to make sense of the e-Infrastructure services or to relate them to their own work and come up with possible ways of using them. While training material exists that provides instructions for the use of advanced ICT systems, there is a lack of material that teaches the underlying principles of e-Research and helps researchers to engage creatively and critically with these technologies."

The material from the e-Uptake project is based on over 100 interviews with researchers and with 'intermediaries', people working on the provision and support of e-Infrastructure services.

The aim is to make the material available to a wide range of stakeholders in a form that enables them to analyse and repurpose it.