This presentation was provided by Raym Crow, representing SPARC, during the NISO webinar, Finding the Funding, Part Two, held on Wednesday, October 17, 2018.

1. Sustaining Open Resources:
A Very Brief Overview
Raym Crow
Senior Consultant, SPARC Consulting Group
NISO Webinar
October 17, 2018

2. What we’ll cover—
Focus on operating support
Sustainability model logic
Challenges of sustaining open resources
Collective support design issues

3. Sustainability Model Logic

4. Sustainability Model Logic

5. Sustainability Model Logic

6. OA Journal:
Business Model

7. Risks of delayed planning—
Separates operating cost from value
Undercapitalizes initiatives
Wastes scarce resources
Reduces leverage in coordinating support

8. Open resource challenges—
Public goods: non-excludable &
non-rivalrous
Collective social benefit vs.
individual self-interest
Leads to suboptimal provision
High collective coordination costs

9. Collective Model Elements

10. Collective Model Elements

11. Collective Model Elements

12. Collective Model Elements

13. Collective Model Elements

14. Raym Crow
 crow@sparcopen.org
 www.sparcopen.org