TIB-arXiv: An Alternative Search Portal for the arXiv Pre-print Server

TL;DR

This paper introduces TIB-arXiv, an enhanced search portal for arXiv that offers comprehensive text-based search, visualization, and a new user interface, expanding beyond the original arXiv Sanity Preserver framework.

Contribution

It extends the arXiv Sanity Preserver framework to support unrestricted topical search and visualization across all arXiv papers, improving accessibility and exploration capabilities.

Findings

Enhanced search and ranking functionalities implemented

Unified backend stores all arXiv papers for efficient access

New user interface facilitates exploration of papers

Abstract

arXiv is a popular pre-print server focusing on natural science disciplines (e.g. physics, computer science, quantitative biology). As a platform with focus on easy publishing services it does not provide enhanced search functionality -- but offers programming interfaces which allow external parties to add these services. This paper presents extensions of the open source framework arXiv Sanity Preserver (SP). With respect to the original framework, it derestricts the topical focus and allows for text-based search and visualisation of all papers in arXiv. To this end, all papers are stored in a unified back-end; the extension provides enhanced search and ranking facilities and allows the exploration of arXiv papers by a novel user interface.