diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonpublish.yaml b/.github/workflows/pythonpublish.yaml
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+name: Upload Python Package
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [created]
+
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.x'
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install setuptools setuptools-scm wheel twine
+      - name: Build and publish
+        env:
+          TWINE_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.PYPI_USERNAME }}
+          TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_PASSWORD }}
+        run: |
+          python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+          twine upload dist/*
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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+===============================
+cmip6_preprocessing
+===============================
+
+.. image:: https://badge.fury.io/py/cmip6_preprocessing.svg
+        :target: https://badge.fury.io/py/cmip6_preprocessing
+.. image:: https://img.shields.io/travis/jbusecke/cmip6_preprocessing.svg
+        :target: https://travis-ci.org/jbusecke/cmip6_preprocessing
+.. image:: https://circleci.com/gh/jbusecke/cmip6_preprocessing.svg?style=svg
+    :target: https://circleci.com/gh/jbusecke/cmip6_preprocessing
+.. image:: https://codecov.io/gh/jbusecke/cmip6_preprocessing/branch/master/graph/badge.svg
+   :target: https://codecov.io/gh/jbusecke/cmip6_preprocessing
+
+
+Some useful functions to make analysis across cmip6 modesl easier
diff --git a/doc/whats-new.rst b/doc/whats-new.rst
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+.. currentmodule:: cmip6_preprocessing
+
+What's New
+===========
+
+.. _whats-new.0.1.0:
+
+v0.1.0 (2/21/2020)
+----------------------
+
+Initial release.