Morrison, Heather2017-01-302017-01-302017-01Morrison, H. (2017). Elsevier: among the world's largest open access publishers as of 2016. The Charleston Advisor January 2017.http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35779https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-2648Highlights of this broad-brush case study of Elsevier’s open access (OA) journals as of 2016: Elsevier offers 511 fully OA journals and 2,149 hybrids. Most fully OA journals do not charge article processing charges (APCs). APCs of fully OA journals average $660 US ($1,731 excluding no-fee journals); hybrid OA averages $2,500. A practice termed author nominal copyright is observed, where copyright is in the name of the author although the author contract is essentially a copyright transfer. The prospects for a full Elsevier flip to OA via APC payments for articles going forward are considered and found to be problematic.enElsevieropen accesseconomics of scholarly publishingResearch Paperhttps://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53