Basically, we use proxy's in order to make it appear as if our internet (http) traffic from our browser has come from a machine in MMU, this will give you access to MMU journal/conference proceedings from home/outside of MMU. You can either set your system proxy to be localhost using port 3128 and use the same proxy server for all protocols. Or, alternatively you can use the preferences or internet options in your browser to achieve the same thing. Here is a PDF of a screenshot example.
ssh -L 3128:wwwcache.mmu.ac.uk:3128 yourusername@laurel.doc.stu.mmu.ac.uk
Obviously you could use laurel/hardy ...
You need to use putty to do the same thing as above.
Install putty, open a command window and type
putty -L 3128:wwwcache.mmu.ac.uk:3128 yourusername@laurel.doc.stu.mmu.ac.uk