Access to Islamic Information Sources for Students of the Faculty of Information Technology, YARSI University

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Background of the study: Islamic information is something that can equip humanity with correct explanations and also help form opinions, and other opinions explain that Islamic information is a transformation of Islamic values ​​which explains a science that aims to educate and provide guidance to humans.
Purpose: This research discusses how students at the Faculty of Information Technology utilize Islamic information sources for writing their Thesis/Final Project. When making a thesis/final project, students are required to make an Islamic study on each topic that will be discussed.
Method: In this research, the method used is descriptive quantitative by making observations and collecting data through distributing questionnaires. The theory in this study refers to information search behavior with the Ellis Model. The subjects used in this study were students who took thesis courses at the Faculty of Information Technology, YARSI University with a total of 110 people.
Findings:  The results showed that the students of the Faculty of Information Technology, YARSI University have carried out the information search stages using the Ellis Model very well and students are also able to properly utilize the available Islamic information sources.
Conclusion: The conclusion of the analysis regarding the utilization of Islamic information sources by students of the Faculty of Information Technology as a reference for writing a thesis, shows a score of 3.34 which is included in the "Very Good" category. This shows that the utilization of information sources carried out by FTI students is in accordance with the 8 indicators of information search behavior described by David Ellis.