diff --git a/doc/sphinx/README.md b/doc/sphinx/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ec8323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/sphinx/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+To build the documentation in this directory,
+
+    sphinx-build . _build_html
+
+The output will be saved as html in `_build_html/`.
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/changes.rst b/doc/sphinx/changes.rst
index 3632a7d..c224e64 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/changes.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/changes.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Changes in IOR
-*****************
+**************
 
-.. .. include:: ../../ChangeLog
+.. .. include:: ../../NEWS
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/conf.py b/doc/sphinx/conf.py
index 90628fd..688303e 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/conf.py
+++ b/doc/sphinx/conf.py
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ source_suffix = '.rst'
 master_doc = 'index'
 
 # General information about the project.
-project = u'IOR'
-copyright = u'2017, IOR'
-author = u'IOR'
+project = u'ior'
+copyright = u'2018, The Regents of the University of California'
+author = u'The IOR Developer Community'
        
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ man_pages = [
 #  dir menu entry, description, category)
 texinfo_documents = [
     (master_doc, 'IOR', u'IOR Documentation',
-     author, 'IOR', 'One line description of project.',
+     author, 'IOR', 'IOR/mdtest Parallel I/O Benchmarks',
      'Miscellaneous'),
 ]