Let I be a small indexing category, G: Iop → Cat be a functor and BG ∈ Cat denote the Grothendieck construction on G. We define and study Quillen pairs between the category of diagrams of simplicial sets (resp. categories) indexed on BG and the category of I-diagrams over N(G) (resp. G). As an application we obtain a Quillen equivalence between the categories of presheaves of simplicial sets (resp. groupoids) on a stack M and presheaves of simplicial sets (resp. groupoids) over M.
Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Vol. 10 (2008), No. 3, pp.193-221.