# Manara — Qatar Research Repository (HBKU portal)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/hbku/manara-repository/  
**Provider:** Hamad Bin Khalifa University — https://apis.io/providers/hbku/  
**Documentation:** https://manara.qnl.qa/hbku

Manara — Qatar Research Repository (HBKU portal) is one of 5 APIs that [Hamad Bin Khalifa University](https://apis.io/providers/hbku/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Data, Repository, Open Access, and Figshare.

HBKU's scholarly output is deposited in Manara — Qatar Research Repository, a Figshare platform operated by Qatar National Library, with an HBKU portal at manara.qnl.qa/hbku. The deposits, DOIs and author records are HBKU's; the contract is Figshare's and the hosting is QNL's, so this is recorded as a relationship and NOT as an HBKU API. No Figshare specification is stored under this slug. The host answers with an AWS WAF challenge (HTTP 202, x-amzn-waf-action: challenge, probed 2026-08-30) — live, but not machine-readable to an unattended client.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Website** — https://manara.qnl.qa/hbku

## Other Hamad Bin Khalifa University APIs (4)

- [Fanar API](https://apis.io/apis/hbku/fanar-api/)
- [Farasa Web API](https://apis.io/apis/hbku/farasa-api/)
- [Elmi Research Portal — OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/hbku/elmi-oai-pmh/)
- [HBKU Academic Catalog — Course Search](https://apis.io/apis/hbku/course-catalog-search/)

## Tags

Research Data, Repository, Open Access, Figshare

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/hbku/manara-repository/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/hbku/.