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Mladen Markov Encyclopædia Americana and Encyclopædia Britannica are two of the most popular English Encyclopædias. They have long history and have been developed for many years and now they meet the need of various adult audience. However, there are some differences between I will try to expose. Encyclopædia Americana and Encyclopædia Britannica will be compared according to the following areas: authoritativeness, purpose, scope, currency, physical makeup, organization, arrangement, indexes, aids …

…a little bit more on specific subjects and topics for helping researchers first, and Encyclopædia Americana makes no special emphasise on some subject area providing easy readable by the general public information. In general, EA and EB are very well constructed and developed in all these years. The only think I could suggest editors and authors is to work hard for improving currency of both encyclopædias especially in the Science & Technology subject area.