Using EZ proxy to get MSU access to journal articles is relatively straightforward. One must add the following before the url of the webpage of the journal article: http://ezproxy.msu.edu/login?url=
But, remembering the MSU EZ proxy link is annoying and so is copying and pasting it from somewhere else since that means opening other webpages or programs. Thus, I created the following simple javascript program that can be added as a bookmark to a web browser (or better yet, to the bookmark bar). Right-click to copy the link address below, then add a bookmark in the browswer and paste it where the url of the page belongs to make the bookmark.
This is the link that needs to be added to the bookmark bar.
Then, whenever one is off-campus and has navigated to the pay-walled version of a publication, one needs only click on the bookmark.