Add to ORKGIt has been said more than once that students will do online searching as long as it does not cost more than a pizza. That premise is probably true. Several years ago when the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) had to almost double the cost of ERIC searches, the number of student searches dropped dramatically. These increased costs and the introduction of laser technology were major factors in the university library's examination of electronic reference tools which could be run by in-house microcomputers rather than vendor-operated mainframes. UIUC, like many other libraries, entered this new world of technology through Information Access Company's InfoTrac. This article describes UIUC's experiences with InfoTrac an...