diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index 507f8d271a..5fd9cebe8a 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@
 # Required
 version: 2
 
+# .readthedocs.yml hook to copy kedro-datasets to kedro.datasets before building the docs
+build:
+  os: ubuntu-20.04
+  tools:
+    python: "3.7"
+  jobs:
+    post_checkout:
+      - bash docs/kedro-datasets-docs.sh
+
 # Build documentation in the docs/ directory with Sphinx
 sphinx:
   builder: html
diff --git a/docs/build-docs.sh b/docs/build-docs.sh
index 3bfa098013..76b67531c0 100755
--- a/docs/build-docs.sh
+++ b/docs/build-docs.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ rm -rf docs/build
 mkdir docs/build/
 cp -r docs/_templates docs/conf.py docs/*.svg docs/*.json  docs/build/
 
+bash docs/kedro-datasets-docs.sh
+
 if [ "$action" == "linkcheck" ]; then
   sphinx-build -c docs/ -ETan -j auto -D language=en -b linkcheck docs/build/ docs/build/html
 elif [ "$action" == "docs" ]; then
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index c917366d63..62ff814b09 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@
         "integer -- return number of occurrences of value",
         "integer -- return first index of value.",
         "kedro.extras.datasets.pandas.json_dataset.JSONDataSet",
+        "kedro.datasets.pandas.json_dataset.JSONDataSet",
         "pluggy._manager.PluginManager",
         "_DI",
         "_DO",
@@ -333,6 +334,7 @@
     "kedro.config",
     "kedro.extras.datasets",
     "kedro.extras.logging",
+    "kedro.datasets",
 ]
 
 
diff --git a/docs/kedro-datasets-docs.sh b/docs/kedro-datasets-docs.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..10054034ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/kedro-datasets-docs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Script to copy kedro-datasets to kedro.datasets before the documentation build for Kedro in ReadTheDocs.
+
+# Exit script if you try to use an uninitialized variable.
+set -o nounset
+
+# Exit script if a statement returns a non-true return value.
+set -o errexit
+
+pip install kedro-datasets
+pip install --no-deps -t kedro/to_delete kedro-datasets
+mv kedro/to_delete/kedro_datasets kedro/datasets
+rm -r kedro/to_delete
diff --git a/docs/source/api_docs/kedro.datasets.rst b/docs/source/api_docs/kedro.datasets.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..28b66c09fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/source/api_docs/kedro.datasets.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+kedro.datasets
+=====================
+
+.. rubric:: Description
+
+.. automodule:: kedro.datasets
+
+.. rubric:: Classes
+
+.. autosummary::
+   :toctree:
+   :template: autosummary/class.rst
+
+   kedro.datasets.api.APIDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.biosequence.BioSequenceDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.dask.ParquetDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.email.EmailMessageDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.geopandas.GeoJSONDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.holoviews.HoloviewsWriter
+   kedro.datasets.json.JSONDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.matplotlib.MatplotlibWriter
+   kedro.datasets.networkx.GMLDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.networkx.GraphMLDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.networkx.JSONDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.CSVDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.ExcelDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.FeatherDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.GBQQueryDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.GBQTableDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.GenericDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.HDFDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.JSONDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.ParquetDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.SQLQueryDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.SQLTableDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pandas.XMLDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pickle.PickleDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.pillow.ImageDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.plotly.JSONDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.plotly.PlotlyDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.redis.PickleDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.spark.DeltaTableDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.spark.SparkDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.spark.SparkHiveDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.spark.SparkJDBCDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.tensorflow.TensorFlowModelDataset
+   kedro.datasets.text.TextDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.tracking.JSONDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.tracking.MetricsDataSet
+   kedro.datasets.yaml.YAMLDataSet