“…Other studies report that university publication policies, copyright considerations, and the nature of IR resources also constitute barriers to IR innovation (Cullen & Chawner, 2011;Kim, 2011;Okoroma & Abioye, 2017). More recently, researchers suggest that diversity of stakeholders' worldviews and interests in scientific knowledge production and management are sensitive issues impacting IR implementation (Holley, 2013;Utulu & Akadri, 2014). IR adoption and implementation in university libraries involve a broad 2 of 12 UTULU AND NGWENYAMA set of internal stakeholders, academics, university management, and specialists (computer programmers, network experts, analysts, librarians, etc) with very different interests in the IR adoption, which must be addressed (Covey, 2011;Cragin et al, 2010;Holley, 2013).…”