I will be publishing my Masters’ thesis under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), so I’ve started a collection of other theses and dissertations doing this.
Access to Knowledge in a Network Society by Karsten Gerloff, published by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
http://www.epsc.upc.es/en/?q=node/103
A Framework for Open Source Projects by Gregor Rothfuss
BoingBoing post on CC licensed dissertations BoingBoing post pointing to some of the earliest known cases of CC-licensed academic work in the wild. It should also be noted that my licensing my masters this way is primarily due to Cory’s evangelism on this count, and particularly some comments about the nature of “The Academy”
http://www.carlaz.com/phd/
http://oacaltech.blogspot.com/2006/06/oleg-evnin-uses-his-phd-dissertation.html
http://www.ituniv.se/~klang/web/thesis/
(also wicked old and posted from LAS waiting for HNL)