diff --git a/.github/workflows/doc.yml b/.github/workflows/doc.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..017480b5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/doc.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+name: Documentation Build
+
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - "doc/**"
+      - "**/doc.yml"
+      - "requirements-docs.txt"
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "doc/**"
+      - "**/doc.yml"
+      - "requirements-docs.txt"
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    # We want to run on external PRs, but not on our own internal PRs as they'll be run
+    # by the push to the branch. Without this if check, checks are duplicated since
+    # internal PRs match both the push and pull_request events.
+    if:
+      github.event_name == 'push' || github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name !=
+      github.repository
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Set up Python 3.7
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.7
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
+          python -m pip install -r "requirements-docs.txt"
+          python -m pip install -e "."
+      - name: Build documentation
+        run: make --directory=doc html
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diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 46886f59e..7097c49a9 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -10,16 +10,15 @@
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
 #
+import contextlib
 import os
 import sys
+from pkg_resources import DistributionNotFound, get_distribution
 
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("../.."))
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("../sphinxext"))
 import datetime
 
-import icepyx
-import recommonmark
-
 
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -27,6 +26,29 @@
 year = datetime.date.today().year
 copyright = "2019-{}, The icepyx Developers".format(year)
 
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def chdir(directory):
+    curdir = os.curdir
+    try:
+        os.chdir(directory)
+        yield
+    finally:
+        os.chdir(curdir)
+
+
+try:
+    dist = get_distribution(project)
+except DistributionNotFound:
+    # The project is not installed in readthedocs environment (requires LDAP
+    # bindings). Read the version with setuptools_scm.
+    import setuptools_scm
+
+    with chdir("../.."):
+        release = setuptools_scm.get_version()
+else:
+    release = dist.version
+version = ".".join(release.split(".")[:2])
+
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
 
 # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
diff --git a/readthedocs.yml b/readthedocs.yml
index b969696f8..827bf74de 100644
--- a/readthedocs.yml
+++ b/readthedocs.yml
@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@ python:
   install:
     - requirements: requirements-docs.txt
     - requirements: requirements.txt
+    - method: pip
+      path: .
+  system_packages: true
diff --git a/requirements-docs.txt b/requirements-docs.txt
index d2f785927..ab4d7e637 100644
--- a/requirements-docs.txt
+++ b/requirements-docs.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 gitpython
 nbsphinx
 numpydoc
+pandoc
 pybtex
 pygithub
 sphinxcontrib-bibtex
+setuptools_scm
+recommonmark
+sphinx_rtd_theme