diff --git a/docs/source/parallel/parallel_demos.txt b/docs/source/parallel/parallel_demos.txt
index 1bf2486..15d9c54 100644
--- a/docs/source/parallel/parallel_demos.txt
+++ b/docs/source/parallel/parallel_demos.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _parallel_examples:
+
 =================
 Parallel examples
 =================
diff --git a/docs/source/parallel/parallel_intro.txt b/docs/source/parallel/parallel_intro.txt
index d0c97ad..86031c4 100644
--- a/docs/source/parallel/parallel_intro.txt
+++ b/docs/source/parallel/parallel_intro.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@
 Overview and getting started
 ============================
 
+
+Examples
+========
+
+We have various example scripts and notebooks for using IPython.parallel in our
+:file:`docs/examples/parallel` directory, or they can be found `on GitHub`__.
+Some of these are covered in more detail in the :ref:`examples
+<parallel_examples>` section.
+
+.. __: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/docs/examples/parallel
+
 Introduction
 ============