diff --git a/.github/workflows/actions.yml b/.github/workflows/actions.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..451e378
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/actions.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+name: build
+
+env:
+  PYTHON_MAIN_VERSION: 3.8
+  
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - '*'
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - '*'
+    tags:
+        - '*'
+
+jobs:
+  build-linux:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      max-parallel: 5
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.9]
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        sudo apt-get update -qq
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        python -m pip install flake8 pytest coveralls
+        if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+        
+    - name: install package
+      run: |
+        pip install .
+        pip list
+    
+    - name: Lint with flake8
+      run: |
+        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+        flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+    
+    - name: Generate coverage report
+      run: |
+        pip install pytest
+        pip install pytest-cov
+        pytest --cov=./ --cov-report=xml
+        
+    - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
+      if: ${{ matrix.python-version == env.PYTHON_MAIN_VERSION }}
+      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
+      with:
+        token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+        files: ./coverage.xml
+        # directory: ./coverage/reports/
+        flags: unittests
+        env_vars: OS,PYTHON
+        name: codecov-umbrella
+        fail_ci_if_error: true
+        # path_to_write_report: ./coverage/codecov_report.txt
+        verbose: true
+        
+    - name: Documentation build
+      if: ${{ matrix.python-version == env.PYTHON_MAIN_VERSION && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'}}
+      run: |
+        pip install sphinx>=3.1.1 sphinx-gallery sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.5.0 sphinx-autodoc-typehints numpydoc wget nbsphinx
+        sudo apt-get install pandoc
+        sphinx-build -b html -aET docs/source docs/_build/html
+        touch docs/_build/html/.nojekyll
+        
+    - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
+      if: ${{ matrix.python-version == env.PYTHON_MAIN_VERSION && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'}}
+      uses: crazy-max/ghaction-github-pages@v2
+      with:
+        target_branch: gh-pages
+        build_dir: docs/_build/html
+      env:
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} 
+      
+    - name: Upload to PyPi
+      if: startsWith( github.ref, 'refs/tags') && matrix.python-version == env.PYTHON_MAIN_VERSION
+      env: 
+        PYPI_TOKEN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
+      run: |
+        pip install wheel twine
+        python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+        twine upload --username "__token__" --password $PYPI_TOKEN_PASSWORD dist/*
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 2559591..f308fd2 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 pyNSID
 ======
 
-.. image:: https://travis-ci.com/pycroscopy/pynsid.svg?branch=master
-    :target: https://travis-ci.com/pycroscopy/pynsid
-    :alt: TravisCI
+.. image:: https://github.com/pycroscopy/pyNSID/workflows/build/badge.svg?branch=master
+    :target: https://github.com/pycroscopy/pyNSID/actions?query=workflow%3Abuild
+    :alt: GitHub Actions
 
 .. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pynsid.svg
     :target: https://pypi.org/project/pynsid/
     :alt: PyPI
 
-.. image:: https://coveralls.io/repos/github/pycroscopy/pyNSID/badge.svg?branch=master
-    :target: https://coveralls.io/github/pycroscopy/pyNSID?branch=master
-    :alt: Coveralls
+.. image:: https://codecov.io/gh/pycroscopy/pyNSID/branch/master/graph/badge.svg?token=484EH7UML3
+    :target: https://codecov.io/gh/pycroscopy/pyNSID
+    :alt: CodeCov
 
 .. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/pynsid.svg
     :target: https://pypi.org/project/pynsid/