Open-access journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader without any financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Open-access journals (sometimes called the "gold road to open access") are one of the two general methods for providing open access. The other (sometimes called the "green road") is self-archiving in a repository. The publisher of an open-access journal is known as an "open-access publisher", and the process is called "open-access publishing.