diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 538199e8b04..c5f57592c26 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@
 [submodule "web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/lib/bootstrap-table"]
 	path = web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/lib/bootstrap-table
 	url = https://github.com/wenzhixin/bootstrap-table.git
+[submodule "docs/manuals"]
+	path = docs/manuals
+	url = https://github.com/geonetwork/doc.git
diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index 31483b3f288..5eb45d9295f 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-doc-sources
-===========
+Documentation
+=============
 
-Documentation sources for geonetwork documentation
\ No newline at end of file
+This module contains:
+* Documentation in RST format
+* Change logs
+* Copyright template
+* Licenses for library
+* Utility folder with scripts to generate extra docs
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/manuals b/docs/manuals
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..b91c85e10a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/manuals
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit b91c85e10a8d215aa3b7dd4883a485fb4f0cd9cc
diff --git a/docs/pom.xml b/docs/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f2f6f189459..00000000000
--- a/docs/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>org.geonetwork-opensource</groupId>
-    <artifactId>geonetwork</artifactId>
-    <version>3.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  </parent>
-
-  <groupId>org.geonetwork-opensource</groupId>
-  <artifactId>geonetwork-docs</artifactId>
-  <name>GeoNetwork Documentation module</name>
-  <description> GeoNetwork documentation in HTML and PDF format. </description>
-
-  <licenses>
-    <license>
-      <name>General Public License (GPL)</name>
-      <url>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt</url>
-    </license>
-  </licenses>
-</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fd90a16e102..fa7e95f7ce7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1112,11 +1112,10 @@
         <module>geoserver</module>
       </modules>
     </profile>
-    <!-- Python and Latex are required to build the documentation. -->
     <profile>
       <id>with-doc</id>
       <modules>
-        <module>docs</module>
+        <module>docs/manuals</module>
       </modules>
     </profile>
     <profile>