diff --git a/loader_hub/papers/arxiv/README.md b/loader_hub/papers/arxiv/README.md
index 739536c0..2d85ecb7 100644
--- a/loader_hub/papers/arxiv/README.md
+++ b/loader_hub/papers/arxiv/README.md
@@ -15,4 +15,15 @@ loader = ArxivReader()
 documents = loader.load_data(search_query='au:Karpathy')
 ```
 
+Alternatively, if you would like to load papers and abstracts separately:
+
+```python
+from llama_index import download_loader
+
+ArxivReader = download_loader("ArxivReader")
+
+loader = ArxivReader()
+documents, abstracts = loader.load_papers_and_abstracts(search_query='au:Karpathy')
+```
+
 This loader is designed to be used as a way to load data into [LlamaIndex](https://github.com/jerryjliu/gpt_index/tree/main/gpt_index) and/or subsequently used as a Tool in a [LangChain](https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain) Agent. See [here](https://github.com/emptycrown/llama-hub/tree/main) for examples.
diff --git a/loader_hub/papers/arxiv/base.py b/loader_hub/papers/arxiv/base.py
index c21d1bdb..b8cfc2b3 100644
--- a/loader_hub/papers/arxiv/base.py
+++ b/loader_hub/papers/arxiv/base.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import hashlib
 import logging
 import os
-from typing import List, Optional
+from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
 
 from llama_index import download_loader
 from llama_index.readers.base import BaseReader
@@ -93,3 +93,74 @@ class ArxivReader(BaseReader):
             print("Unable to delete files or directory")
 
         return arxiv_documents + abstract_documents
+    
+    
+    def load_papers_and_abstracts(
+        self,
+        search_query: str,
+        papers_dir: Optional[str] = ".papers",
+        max_results: Optional[int] = 10,
+    ) -> Tuple[List[Document], List[Document]]:
+        """Search for a topic on Arxiv, download the PDFs of the top results locally, then read them.
+
+        Args:
+            search_query (str): A topic to search for (e.g. "Artificial Intelligence").
+            papers_dir (Optional[str]): Locally directory to store the papers
+            max_results (Optional[int]): Maximum number of papers to fetch.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Document]: A list of Document objects representing the papers themselves
+            List[Document]: A list of Document objects representing abstracts only
+        """
+        import arxiv
+
+        arxiv_search = arxiv.Search(
+            query=search_query,
+            id_list=[],
+            max_results=max_results,
+            sort_by=arxiv.SortCriterion.Relevance,
+        )
+        search_results = list(arxiv_search.results())
+        logging.debug(f"> Successfully fetched {len(search_results)} paperes")
+
+        if not os.path.exists(papers_dir):
+            os.makedirs(papers_dir)
+
+        paper_lookup = {}
+        for paper in search_results:
+            # Hash filename to avoid bad charaters in file path
+            filename = f"{self._hacky_hash(paper.title)}.pdf"
+            paper_lookup[os.path.join(papers_dir, filename)] = {
+                "Title of this paper": paper.title,
+                "Authors": (", ").join([a.name for a in paper.authors]),
+                "Date published": paper.published.strftime("%m/%d/%Y"),
+                "URL": paper.entry_id,
+                # "summary": paper.summary
+            }
+            paper.download_pdf(dirpath=papers_dir, filename=filename)
+            logging.debug(f"> Downloading {filename}...")
+
+        def get_paper_metadata(filename):
+            return paper_lookup[filename]
+
+        SimpleDirectoryReader = download_loader("SimpleDirectoryReader")
+        arxiv_documents = SimpleDirectoryReader(
+            papers_dir, file_metadata=get_paper_metadata
+        ).load_data()
+        # Include extra documents containing the abstracts
+        abstract_documents = []
+        for paper in search_results:
+            d = f"The following is a summary of the paper: {paper.title}\n\nSummary: {paper.summary}"
+            abstract_documents.append(Document(d))
+
+        # Delete downloaded papers
+        try:
+            for f in os.listdir(papers_dir):
+                os.remove(os.path.join(papers_dir, f))
+                logging.debug(f"> Deleted file: {f}")
+            os.rmdir(papers_dir)
+            logging.debug(f"> Deleted directory: {papers_dir}")
+        except OSError:
+            print("Unable to delete files or directory")
+
+        return arxiv_documents, abstract_documents