Correction to: Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01072-w, published online 04 November 2021

The original version of this Data Descriptor implied that the Global Biotic Interactions database (GloBi) was a sub-site of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) which is incorrect. It also implied that data sources relating to literature references and location information were unavailable in GloBi, whereas these can retrieved by changing the parameters in the get_interactions() function of the rglobi R package. The text in the Methods section has been amended to reflect this.