In general, we’d recommend that you use the latest edition of a book on your reading list. Where newer editions are listed in the library catalogue, you should start to see a “newer edition available” message (in green) below the book references…

If you expand the reference, you’ll see the newer edition(s) listed in the “Library Catalogue – all editions and related works” section, along with an option to update the reference…

Before updating to the latest edition, we’d recommend that you review the library stock (you can do this by clicking on the title of the newer edition) — in this particular case, we have 3 copies of the 1993 edition in stock. If you do decide to update to a newer edition, your Subject Librarian will be automatically alerted and, if necessary, extra stock will be purchased.

Occasionally you might find a “false positive”, where the newer edition is a related work (such as a different volume) rather than a newer edition. Feel free to report those to myreading@hud.ac.uk and we’ll investigate.

When you click on the “update to this edition” option, you’ll see the usual “check the reference for accuracy” screen…

Once you’re happy with the new reference, click on the “Submit” button to update the reading list…

The older edition of the book will still be listed in the “Library Catalogue – all editions and related works” section.

If you run into any problems using this new feature, please leave a comment or send an email to myreading@hud.ac.uk