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
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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'
# modified bumped 2026-06-03: added OpenAPI/spec-derived artifacts
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: [email protected]