Reading literature from home with your UM account

Well, this is not strictly for GNU/Linux only, but useful anyway: you can read non-Open Access literature from outside the UM network, using your UM account using EZProxy. And it is as simple as typing a URL: you just append .ezproxy.ub.unimaas.nl to the domain name. Thus, instead of typing http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7299/full/465685e.html you use http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.ub.unimaas.nl/nature/journal/v465/n7299/full/465685e.html. That's all.

Update: if you are using Firefox, check this plugin. If you are using the Chrome browser, you can also check out this extension:

Maastricht University should be known to the extension already (but the "manual" URL is given below too), and my configuration of the extension looks like: