PsycINFO has a special search limiter that allows the user to filter my research methodology (i.e. literature review).
![Database search screen with filter literature review selected under methodology](//libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/40146/images/PsycINFO_lit_review.jpg)
Not all other databases have this search filter available. In those situations, combining your topic with "literature review" or "review of the literature" (in quotation marks) can help.
![image of Education Research Complete database search combing the topic of school counseling with a search for literature review](//libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/40146/images/lit_review_EBSCO.jpg)