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The Institutional Repositories (IR) is a new scholarly communications platform for disseminating the digital contents of a university and academic institution. This study aims to measure the perceptions on six success factors of IR (knowledge sharing, self-archiving, IR usage, IR policy, IR procedure, and copyright awareness) and IR performance among academicians in a Malaysian university and to seek the relationship between success factors of IR and IR performance. A set of questionnaires was distributed to selected academicians in one large faculty of information management in a Malaysian university. The results found that self-archiving, IR policy, and IR procedure are the most preferred response by the respondents, while it was also revealed that IR policy was positively and strongly correlated with IR procedure. The strong relationship between IR policy and IR procedure shows that positive perceptions will help enhance IR performance. The result is significant to the academic libraries in enhancing their repository services and measuring the performance of the university’s research activities.