"[10] Cambridge Scholars Publishing sends unsolicited emails to potential authors: "Many academics must have at least received an email asking them to publish their undergraduate, masters or PhD dissertations as long as they are a part of some online repository to which these entities have easy access.

"[11] In February 2018, it was added as a potentially predatory journal publisher to the update to Beall's List of potentially predatory journals or publishers, no longer maintained by Beall but by an anonymous European postdoctoral researcher.

[13] As of November 2023[update] a list published by Predatory Reports, "an organization made up of volunteer researchers who have been harmed by predatory publishers and want to help researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research",[14] lists Cambridge Scholars in its list of Predatory Publishers[15] and discusses it at length in a July 2023 news post which concludes that "Some studies name CSP as potentially predatory.

It relocated to Newcastle when its founders moved to Durham University,[4] and was subsequently sold to a group of Newcastle-based business-people when the original owner left the UK in 2010.

[19] The firm is based in the Lady Stephenson Library, a building that was commissioned in 1908 to house one of Newcastle's early public libraries, given to the city by William Haswell Stephenson and named for his wife Eliza Mary née Bond, who had died aged 67 in 1901.