diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import os
 # 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.
 #sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../..'))
 
 # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
adds path to sphinx config so that we actually import the local version of nolds