CITATION Garcia, H.E., C. Cosca, A. Kozyr, E. Mayorga, C. Chandler, R.W. Thomas, K. O’Brien, W. Appeltans, S. Hankin, J.A. Newton, A. Gutierrez, J.-P. Gattuso, L. Hansson, M. Zweng, and B. Pfeil. 2015. Data management strategy to improve global use of ocean acidifcation data and information. Oceanography 28(2):226–228, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2015.45. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2015.45 COPYRIGHT This article has been published in Oceanography, Volume 28, Number 2, a quarterly journal of The Oceanography Society. Copyright 2015 by The Oceanography Society. All rights reserved. USAGE Permission is granted to copy this article for use in teaching and research. Republication, systematic reproduction, or collective redistribution of any portion of this article by photocopy machine, reposting, or other means is permitted only with the approval of The Oceanography Society. Send all correspondence to: info@tos.org or The Oceanography Society, PO Box 1931, Rockville, MD 20849-1931, USA. O ceanography THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE OCEANOGRAPHY SOCIETY DOWNLOADED FROM HTTP://WWW.TOS.ORG/OCEANOGRAPHY