Hamad Bin Khalifa University

aid: hbku
name: Hamad Bin Khalifa University
description: 'Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is a research-intensive graduate university founded in 2010 as part of Qatar
  Foundation, located in Education City, Doha, Qatar, and ranked #183 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. HBKU does
  not operate a centralized public developer portal or documented institutional API; its student information, academic catalog,
  and library discovery systems are gated behind authentication. The most significant public, machine-readable footprint is
  its scholarly research output, which is deposited in Manara - Qatar Research Repository, a Figshare-powered repository hosted
  by Qatar National Library that exposes HBKU works through Figshare''s public REST API v2 and OAI-PMH metadata harvesting
  endpoint.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hbku/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Repository
- Qatar
- Middle East
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: hbku:figshare-api
  name: Figshare API v2 (Manara - HBKU Research)
  description: HBKU scholarly outputs are deposited in Manara - Qatar Research Repository, an open repository operated by
    Qatar National Library and powered by Figshare. Public article, dataset, and collection metadata for HBKU works is accessible
    programmatically through Figshare's JSON-based REST API v2, which supports search and retrieval of articles, authors,
    statistics, and files. This is a third-party platform hosting HBKU content rather than an API operated by HBKU itself.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - Datasets
  - Figshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#figshare_documentation_oauth
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hbku-figshare-api.yaml
- aid: hbku:figshare-oai
  name: Figshare OAI-PMH (Manara - HBKU Research)
  description: Figshare exposes an OAI-PMH v2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint that provides access to public article metadata
    across the platform, including HBKU works hosted in Manara - Qatar Research Repository. Harvesting can be filtered to
    a specific portal/set, and supported metadata formats include Dublin Core (oai_dc), DataCite, RDF, CERIF, Qualified Dublin
    Core, METS, and UKETD_DC. This is third-party infrastructure hosting HBKU content.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Figshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.figshare.com/article/how-to-use-the-oai-pmh
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/home
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/cri-lab-hbku
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/hbku
- type: Library
  url: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/hbku-library
- type: Repository
  url: https://manara.qnl.qa/hbku
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hbku-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/hbku-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/hbku-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com