She maintains an office at ARL headquarters. Johnson and Shirley Baker, incoming president of ARL, are members of BioOne's board of directors. Blixrud serves as deputy treasurer of BioOne. Various additional partnerships are pending, including an agreement with Theory and Practice of Logic Programming and another with the former editor of an insect physiology journal who is developing an alternative in cooperation with the University of Arizona library. Several more partnership opportunities involve journal editors who are planning to create alternatives to their commercial title.
Efforts are underway to establish similar collaborations in other countries.
The Triangle Research Libraries Network has agreed to contribute to the Declaring Independence project and is considering cosponsorship. Its Industry News section has expanded to include analysis of current trends in the scholarly publishing marketplace. At the end of 1999 there were 166 members and 7 affiliates. Two consortia representing 23 libraries provide an additional source of purchase commitments. A new membership category International Supporting Member was added in April.