1. Operating grants are awarded to individuals or teams to cover part or all of the direct costs of particular research projects. They often include provision for salaries paid to graduate students and other assistants, the university's share of fringe benefit costs, and the expenses of materials, technical services, field travel and computing.

2. Operating contracts are similar to operating grants but involve a contractual agreement that is more formal than the terms of a conventional grant. By means of a contract, the sponsor normally acquires an interest in the results of the research and can enforce strict time, scope and reporting requirements; university policy, however, is that investigators retain the right to publish, subject to a reasonable deferral period.

3. Equipment grants are awards given for the purchase of items of capital equipment and their maintenance.

4. In-kind support is assistance in other ways than cash transfers to the university. Among common types of such support are free supplies of material involved in experiments, use of off-campus computer or other facilities, loan of equipment, donations to the library, dedicated time of other organizations' personnel, ship-time and other logistical support.

5. Awards designated as general support grants are either grants to assist with general operating costs, including awards for infrastructure or library resources, or lump sums received from an outside source and then redistributed internally within the university.

6. In Table 3, the amounts reported for the Faculty of Science also include the research units of CERR (Centre for Earth Resources Research) and OSC (Ocean Sciences Centre). The amounts reported for the Faculty of Business Administration also includes the P.J. Gardiner Institute for Small Business Studies and the Centre for International Business Studies.

7. Further analysis of the University’s research data can be found in the Fact Book, a publication of the Centre for Institutional Analysis and Planning. The Fact Book can be found on the Web at www.mun.ca/ciap/ or by contacting the Centre for Institutional Analysis and Planning.