diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-doi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-doi/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0cb6b2a7502
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-doi/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, isPy3k }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "python-doi";
+  version = "0.1.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "papis";
+    repo = "python-doi";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1wa5inh2a0drjswrnhjv6m23mvbfdgqj2jb8fya7q0armzp7l6fr";
+  };
+
+  disabled = !isPy3k;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Python library to work with Document Object Identifiers (doi)";
+    homepage = https://github.com/alejandrogallo/python-doi;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ teto ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 36c5c36ddc7..1cae92a2c2f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6229,6 +6229,8 @@ in {
 
   python-docx = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-docx { };
 
+  python-doi = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-doi { };
+
   aiohue = callPackage ../development/python-modules/aiohue { };
 
   PyMVGLive = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pymvglive { };