摘要: This paper discusses mashups, medical mashups for health librarians, specifically. Mashups bring together two or more Web applications to produce a completely new information service. Put another way, mashup is hybrid that takes sources and merges them create third, useful tool. A good example of widely used Google Maps (http://www.google.com/apis/ maps), which combines Earth data with telephone directory satellite road map. Although they are part 2.0 share 2.0’s openness, participation, collaborative aspects, build on technological base dating back the earliest days Web. By utilizing publicly available open source code, draw current awareness tools like feeds, really simple syndication (RSS) Atom, JavaScript. While still experimental, worthy close examination by librarians interested in exploring new, creative methods delivery.